Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barberton, Ohio, Louis Goudy, 14, of Decatur, Ind., stepped off his bike and arched two harassed insteps. Barberton is 213 miles distant from Decatur. Said Louis: "I heard grandmother was ill and I thought she might need me, so I came." Grandma was pleased...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...
Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...business meeting, other matters transacted were: re-election of officers: ? Dr. Charles F. Thwing (Western Reserve, emeritus), President; Dr. Francis W. Shepardson (Chicago), Vice President?and granting of charters to new chapters at Agnes Scott College, (Decatur, Ga.), University of South Carolina, College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio), University of South Dakota, University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), University of Kentucky, Occidental College (Los Angeles, Calif), University of Idaho...
...Decatur, Ill., The Decatur Review segregated telegraphic crime news to a lower left-hand corner of the front page labelled "Crime." At the end of a week, said ministers: "Undue attention is called." Others commended...