Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...level or usage in England. I repeat, I am a British citizen and I have no prejudice either way, but I trust that none of your readers will regard the grotesque effusion of Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse as representative of English culture, English critcism or English sentiment. FRANK VINCENT WADDY...
There are several reasons for the conviction behind this expression of faith in the necessity of things. The first is a far cry even viewed in the all-important light of psychology, and has not particular validity. No Harvard crew, and for that matter no Yale crew either, has even won consecutively for more than six years. Pause then to consider that the lean years have expired and the days of plenty are about to set in. Superstitious souls may take this for what it is worth though it seems hardly worth any very substantial wagers in itself. A second...
...Apparently the spectacle did not interest the Commander-in-Chief-at least not to the point of complimenting the American Navy either by his presence and attention while it passed, or by recognizing the dignity of the occasion by wearing the regulation full-dress presidential uniform...
...carried a revolver charged with poisoned dumdum bullets and also a hand grenade which I had saved from the War. I intended either to shoot Mussolini or to bomb him, whichever seemed surest of success. ... I told none of my friends. I had no accomplices. I just threw the bomb. I knew that if it killed Mussolini I should be killed. ... I am sorry the bomb only wounded a lot of men in the street. . . . My temperament has always been profoundly misogynistic [woman-hating...
...Samuel Insull (purveyor of light, heat and trolley rides to most of Chicago and its purlieus) should decide to take the city's taxicab situation in hand. That was the rumor, vague and unelaborated but still striking-that Samuel Insull would stride among the Chicago taxicab companies, either to compete with them or absorb them as one more of his big utility schemes...