Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Literary fame came to Mrs. Sullivan in 1902 with the publication by Harper and Brothers of her novel, "Out of the West", which told the story of the struggle of the grange against the railroads. For 20 years she was a feature writer for Chicago newspapers. Her activities in Chicago...
"Kansas has honored me by electing me to office under every national administration since 1892. ... If my friends of Kansas desire to send a delegation to the next Republican National Convention favorable to my nomination, I shall be greatly pleased to be their candidate. . . . Even to be considered for the...
¶ "Under the guidance and watchful care of a divine and beneficent Providence this country has been carried safely through another year. Almighty God has continued to bestow upon us the light of His countenance, and we have prospered. Not only have we enjoyed material success, but we have advanced...
Partly disagreeing with Mr. Clive, Mr. Woolley attributed the imminent rise in the standards of the stage to a desire of the audience for more details and better methods, and voiced praise of dramatic activity in college.
In the play, Hamlet's greeting to his college mate Horatio was: "But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there...