Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Suicide ? It seemed so, but who could imagine a man like Raoul taking his own life. . . . Murder? That seemed more likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was quite simple, they said. Raoul La Chapelle had dressed for the feête, had climbed up on the stool to see himself full length in the glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises...
...Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, William Edgar Borah, growled that the Administration seems to be looking for grounds on which to commence "a shameless, cowardly little war with Mexico...
...Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey's eastern end. This threw light on certain cryptic manuscripts. Architect Bond dug, gave up, consulted the ghost again, received fresh instructions, dug again and found King Edgar's masonry...
...railroads: Robert V. Massey of the Pennsylvania and William Ayer Baldwin of the Erie. For the workers: E. P. Curtis, general secretary, Order of Railway Conductors, and Daniel L. Cease, editor, Railway Trainmen. For the public: William Delavan Baldwin, chairman, Otis Elevator Co., and Edgar Erastus Clark, onetime (1906-21) I. C. C. commissioner, now Washington, D. C. lawyer. They had just 45 days, according to law, to hear both sides of the dispute and to make their recommendations for settlement. They accomplished their task-the "public's" men siding with those of the workers...
ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Hervey Allen - Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan...