Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself."
When Joe Strauss offered his plans to bridge the Golden Gate's mile of surging tidal currents, everybody laughed. After the California Legislature authorized a Bridge District with power to build the bridge, it took six years of legal battle before the U. S. Supreme Court permitted it to...
Though Mr. Paine forgot about it. the spider story continued to turn up here & there. Last year, the monthly Mechanics & Handicraft featured the story in its July number under the title "Webs for Sale." This time Pierre Grantaire was back in his native France, operating from a "little village in...
Last week, the hoary hoax raised its head once more, in highly respectable surroundings, when readers of the June Atlantic Monthly spied the yarn as the leading article in the "Contributors' Club" department. The anonymous Atlantic contributor, borrowing many a phrase from the 40-year-old original, credited the...
Spokesmen for Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell said he was against this "illadvised" plan and Massachusetts' politically sagacious young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. told the Catholic Order of Foresters in his constituency that he would voice his opposition to the U. S. State Department...