Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since April, 1925. Calendars since then had recorded some 790 different days, but those days had all been much the same to him. They would continue so, too, for he was a lifer. He would be there, in the common phrase, "from now on." Surely an unworthy end for David Curtis Stephenson who through many years had controlled the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which had controlled the politics of Indiana. In the Republican State Convention of 1924 he had patrolled the aisles of the convention hall with a gun on his hip. The men whom he had picked for office...
Then had come the Oberholtzer case. Twelve gentlemen of a jury had found him guilty of having abducted and attacked Madge Oberholtzer, an Indianapolis girl who had committed suicide following her disgrace. It was second degree murder and it brought David Curtis Stephenson a life sentence. Of course, life sentences were largely figures of speech-lifers were usually set free after 20 or 25 years. But even after 20 years he would come out an old man. He would have spent what are generally termed "the best years of a man's life" in the ignominious occupation of making...
Requital. Executive Editor David N. Mosessohn of the Jewish Tribune? made bold to advise Henry Ford on how to requite himself to the Jews. He wrote...
Married. Miss Etienne Lawrence, daughter of David Lawrence, famed Washington journalist and president of the United States Daily; to Herbert Carl Sturhahn, famed footballer, twice (1925, 1926) All-American guard (Yale); in Washington...
...book by Authors Disney and Mackaye contains only contributions, coaxed from such personages as the presidents of the Lucy Stone League and of the Bush Terminal Co., Authors W. E. Woodward (Bunk) and Irvin Cobb, Professor William Lyon Phelps and David Belasco. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was allowed to make up one game and, choosing the monosyllable "cdflm," he included among his categories a "kind of candy" and "something you see in a barn." This book also contains blank pages for self-sufficient Guggenheimers and people who like to try outguessing themselves...