Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge did what she could. She asked President Coolidge to act. He in turn asked Attorney-General Sargent to tell Mrs. Odalivitch what course to take. The Sargent advice was to appeal to a justice of the United States Supreme Court, to review the case. That had already been done unsuccessfully. Mark Dowell was hanged...
...imported liquor from Canada, Cuba, Europe. He owned trucks, speedboats, 20 ships of foreign registry. He employed 800 men, a few women. He bribed Prohibition agents, put some of his own men into the Coast Guard service. In the two and a half years preceding January 1926, he had done a liquor business of some $50,000,000. Manhattan was the centre of his activities...
...highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons and rebel [against the Dominion Government]. . . . I do not think that England...
Strangely enough, Mrs. Fox, though she won almost every other amateur U.S. women's event in the east, never won the National. She might have done so, had she lived a little longer...
...Mysterious Lady. They say that Greta Garbo once went to see one of her own films and has never done so again. The reason: she was sickened by the long and langorous close-ups which delight cinemaddicts. There are plenty of such close-ups in The Mysterious Lady. But otherwise. Miss Garbo gives a dignified and stirring performance as Russia's greatest pre-War lady spy. The man in the case (Conrad Nagel) fails to click...