Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretty wife and a little son named Dante. There was another baby coming. He lived in a bungalow belonging to his employer, Michael Kelly. . . . The men were friends. Often Kelly advised him to lay off this anarchist stuff. There was no money in it. ... Sacco was a clever young fellow and could soon get to be a prosperous citizen, maybe own a factory of his own some day, live by other men's work. But Sacco, working in his garden in the early morning before the whistles blew, hilling beans, picking off potato bugs, worried about things...
...next morning, prodigal, he distributed oranges among his fellow Tombs prisoners, who then referred to him as a "square, generous fellow...
...righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother* of the "Great Commoner" depends...
...Something froze Dzerzhinsky's soul in his youth- perhaps too early and too long imprisonment-and he became imbued with the prodigious soulless energy of a machine. While imprisoned in Poland and later in Siberia, he begged permission, lest inaction drive him mad, to empty daily all his fellow prisoners' latrines. Like a famished tiger, he thirsted for the revolutionary works of Marx, but (naturally) his gaolers were adamant on that point, though obliging in the matter of latrines...
Honest Liars. The most commanding of comedians would have been in trouble here. Robert Woolsey is only a moderately funny fellow, usually concerning himself with musical comedy. Yet his performance will unquestionably go down as one of the most conscientious of the year. He worked with incredible diligence and in spots succeeded in putting even Honest Liars across. It is a frantic and feeble farce about a sanitarium. A mad group of characters, a pair of twins and an operation combine and recombine rapidly. Most of the jokes were old and none of the complications excruciating...