Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heels of Wet President Butler's speech came a public statement by Dry Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, followed last fortnight by a speech and last week by another speech and several press statements from Senator Borah...
Since then he has been pretty much in seclusion and has been heard of mainly in regard to the sales of his property and the invitation he sent to U. S. Senator William Edgar Borah to visit England...
...William Edgar Gell placed her confidence in that long fallon prophet M. Coue. "Wherever you can get an audience of one or two women together, three, four or five times a day say, in a resolute voice, "I believe in the Eighteenth Amendment...
Bremen Gaped. Above Bremen, Germany, an airplane was flying swiftly backward. Leslie Edgar Reed of the U. S. foreign service investigated, cabled the U. S. department of Commerce a description. The plane, thick-winged, carried its tail in front, preventing somersault after a bad landng...
...toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely, and thereafter no man reached first base. He recalled Golfer J. Douglas Edgar, of England, who preferred steins, which, when available, dropped his score a dozen strokes. He recalled Papyrus, horse, who performed fastest with buckets of ale in his belly. These examples proved to Mr. Williams a principle. He mourned for Mr. Adams & Mary Lewis, grieving that the principle had not been...