Word: deservedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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If an old New England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The...
Again General Pershing was queried. This time he seemed not so sure. "Why should I be obliged to say . . ." said he. It appeared that Crier Woollcott, his reputation safe, deserved no ducking.
Last month, along with 48 other selected "bright boys," one Charles H. Brunissen of West Redding, Conn., went to West Orange, N. J., and answered the long lists of questions whereby Thomas Alva Edison, aided by the U. S. press, sought to find the most eligible young man in the...
Thirty years ago Detroit was a far-seeing city. Horses still clop-clopped over its pavements but people were talking about steam and electric transportation. Those who were foolish enough to think of gasoline got what they deserved. They had faith in the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison Company...
"That was how," chortled Newsman Upshaw last week, "I came to be known as the first man who put the fires under Al Smith. He deserved it, fine man though he is."