Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caraway: You contributed more people who stole everything they could get their hands on than any other five States! They even stole the library out of the Supreme Court...
...fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules, whereas any action in the metals salient was checked by the absence of General Reed. Even Field Marshal Simmons left his front-line headquarters for the rear. Democratic Adjutant General Walsh (of Montana) stormed: "I object to Saturday being made a day of leisure for some Senators and a day of work for others...
...Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky. In the World War he was a colonel of infantry on the Italian front; in 1923-24 he was the American Legion's chaplain. In 1921 he went to the First Church of Muncie, raised $350,000 for a new building, highly organized his flock, even down to an emergency blood transfusion corps. When he left Muncie, his church refused his resignation, made him pastor emeritus. His last call there was upon an indicted bootlegger. He played with the 'legger's children on the floor, made another friend...
Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
...words "dare" and "dynamite." They boast that at their round tables the unofficial delegates rush in where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered Chinaman in question...