Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daniel Webster was sent to the Senate from Massachusetts until he died. He was loose, drank habitually to excess, did not pay his debts, but Massachusetts had a right to send him. And one could multiply such instances a hundredfold...
...Cleveland merchants claimed to have forced this apology, but Publisher Daniel R. Hanna Jr. (grandson of the late Mark) stoutly denied that his paper had suffered the added degradation of kowtowing to advertisers...
President Daniel Marsh of Boston University indicts a philosophy of the tragedies. It is materialism, he declares, that drives students to take their own lives, materialism that is, among other adjectives that the Boston sage applies to it, "mechanistic, behavioristic, analytic, naturalistic, and humanistic." It has brought about "a recrudescence of the jungle," and not until man finds again in his scheme of things a place for "a personal, self-conscious God," will the American undergraduate be safe...
...present you your Governor, Daniel J. Moody. Hear...
...author: "A certain committee last week announced winners of the O. Henry Memorial Prizes in short-story-writing for 1926. Wilbur Daniel Steele won $500 for 'Bubbles.' Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, the committee chairman, said that My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather had tied-for first prize but 'Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back...