Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That great Democratic vote-getter David Ignatius Walsh, Wet Catholic, retained his Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
Lillian Gish and David Wark Griffith met in Mary Pickford's dressing-room in the old Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...
Still another significant invention came before the Optical Society. It was a refinement of Dr. William David Coolidge's cascading cathode tube which shoots pure electrons out through a thin nickel window (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). The new tube's window is made of pyrex glass thinner than tissue paper and permits more electrons to escape from the tube's cathode than does Dr. Coolidge's nickel window. And the new contraption is relatively cheap, available for research laboratories everywhere to experiment with the mightiest rays that man has yet learned to control. Remarkable...
...David A. Reed...
...David Reed...