Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning. The United States, England, and the rest of the world has paid an enormous price for its great industrialization. Besides, the Mexicans are very clever. They can carry their own load. They have included all industrial problems in their Constitution, They trust none of these problems like the eight hour day, the 16 year age limit for working children, and similar ones to a Supreme Court. They wrote the legislation of the world for the last 50 years into their constitution. All strikes since 1917 have been caused by the violation of some issue in the Constitution...
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice...
...college graduate but later received honorary LL.D.'s from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, N. Y. U. and other universities; at Brookline, Mass. His great work was a painstaking history of the U. S. which appeared intermittently between 1893 and 1920, and finally emerged in a revised edition of eight volumes: A History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaigns of 1896. The Berlin Academy of Science awarded him the Loubat prize in 1901, and in 1918 he won the Pulitzer prize for history...
...without publicity, to spare them and commercial baseball a black eye. Mr. Johnson contended it was purely an American League affair. Ever since Commissioner Landis' appointment in 1920, Mr. Johnson had resented his authority. Twice before he had challenged it. His third challenge was his last. The eight American League club-owners met in Chicago at Commissioner Landis' request. They realized that the Cobb-Speaker publicity had been unavoidable. They relieved vociferous Mr. Johnson of his duties. Mr. Johnson's health was reported "pitiable...
Backstage in "Sunny" land at the Colonial his life endangered by a maze of ropes, "props" and the frantic haste of Herculean property men constructing the "S. S. Triumphant", his wits distracted by the Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails rushing from the spotlight to their respective dressing rooms and the thunderous applause of a Saturday makinee audience, a panicky. Crimson reporter tried to follow the witticisms of Jack Donahue, famous for his funny feet...