Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long-jawed Alfonso XIII of Spain listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like...
(To his teacher, to get sympathy): "You don't know my father. He'll beat me with an iron chain, yes, sir! an iron chain, 'n after all I'm only a little boy."
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. Mr. Broun described his St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad holdings under a caption "the Gate Called Golden," and flayed San Francisco as a foggy city. "Our terminals," said ignorant Mr. Broun, "don't appear attractive." Mr. Broun apparently was misled by the railroad'...
In July 1926, in Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper...
But Editor Pew was not downhearted: ''In summation I surely cannot say that I believe Don Mellett's martyrdom was in vain, though the sacrifice was terrible and though the tangible results seem vague. The very fact that we are here thinking and talking of these things...