Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he tagged his name upon the National Prohibition Act. It was a nuisance, of course, when intoxicated traveling salesmen called Mr. Volstead up in the middle of the night to curse him, and it was not altogether pleasant to feel that a large portion of his fellow countrymen regard him as a wizened fanatic. But Mr. Volstead has surmounted these drawbacks...
...homes of three of the brightest men studying sociology at Minnesota but not belonging to the experimental group, had been lost in the Mississippi flood, which was at that time raising such havoc, and that it would be necessary for these students to leave college unless, among their fellow classmates, sufficient funds could be raised to put them on their feet again. In the third place, we sent forth notice that an appeal had been received from Russia for contributions for food for starving students in their universities...
...industry's overproduction, not its underhanded dealings with the U. S., prompted the Hoover decree. As Secretary of Commerce Mr. Hoover was a member of the Federal Oil Conservation Board and heard predictions by fellow engineers that the U.S. oil resources would be exhausted in five, ten or 25 years, unless steps were taken to check the flow. He knew the U.S. possessed only some 15% of the world's oil supply, yet was producing 70% of the world's demand...
...snouted White Triplex car roaring toward them at 202 m. p. h. over the hard sand. The car swerved. Driver Lee Bible lost control. The car somersaulted prodigiously toward the cameras. When it lay still, Driver Bible, thrown far away, and one of the photographers, a big fellow named Charles Traub, crushed by three tons of pitchpoling steel, were dead. The film of the accident, complete in Traub's camera, went out at once to Pathe exhibitors...
...sake of the censor, was translated as "Three Girls From The Folies Bergere." The book, by Yves Mirande, was innocuous enough and the music, by Raoul Moretti, was light and gay and altogether pleasant. In addition, the chief comedian, M. Servatius, turned out to be an exceedingly droll fellow. Not the least of the visitors' charms was their unpretentiousness. The French do not spend much on their musical comedies. It is a relief to sit through an evening without being asked to watch armies of chorus ladies parade past in what the best dressed woman will not wear. After...