Word: downing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Rockville Center, L. I., a fire-alarm clanged, roused the Live Oak Volunteer Engine Co., which sped in search of the fire. After dashing vainly about the town, they learned that their fire house was alight, had almost burned down.
(3 of 5) throughout Lorenzo the Magnificent: Lorenzo "was perhaps a coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this...
So hot was the trail of the lobbyists and so important was their reluctant testimony in relation to the pending tariff bill that the Senate committee even pondered the advisability of asking the Department of Justice for a detachment of Secret Service operatives to run down clues, to bring skulking...
To these experts will fall the task of discovering why Prohibition agents are quick to shoot down liquor suspects on sight. Likewise they will delve in the susceptibility of dry officers to be bribed out of their enforcement duty.
Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio is famed for its curious plan of study, an experimental system far beyond the wildest dreams of famed Educator Horace Mann, its first President (1853-59). At Antioch, co-educational since 1921, students are divided into two divisions, A & B. In alternating five-week...