Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The law which enabled the President to promote Pershing from captain to brigadier general has unfortunately been revoked-the law that "ave us such men as Pershing, Wood, Bell, runston. Now the Government can do nothing to Accelerate the promotion of a brilliant soldier it finds down the list but...
Last fortnight flames licked about this Democratic shrine. Two barns, a corn crib and the carriage house went up in smoke, down in ashes. Damage: $19,999 (no insurance). Cause: unknown (Republicans were locally suspected of arson on general principles). Caretakers trundled out to safety the coach in which Jackson...
Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the...
Then a sexagenarian came and described how Angèle had come to him for money. And one night the customers at the restaurant exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her...
Mr. Wilson's "episodic cyclorama" attempts to paint in 34 scenes the tumultuous love-life of Veronica Mathilda McConnell, a poor Irish serving girl. At the age of eleven in the streets of the slums. she gathered stray lumps of coal to keep her drunken father warm. "Youse wuzz...