Word: followed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal and local co-operation on Prohibition enforcement (TIME, July 29 et seq.). New York is the largest and wettest of many a large, wet U. S. city where Prohibition is hardest and most expensive to enforce. If Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston et al follow New York's lead and decline to "cooperate" through their police forces, the Hoover policy, if continued, will resolve itself into a one-sided thing tantamount to urban nonenforcement...
...trying for the title? Last week as Spain's lively, cavaliering Alfonso XIII sunbasked at smart Biarritz, he tossed a sort of answer to pert Coralie van Paassen, of the New York Evening World. "If it could be done," smiled His Majesty, "I would like to follow the example of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great...
...delivered an anatomical lecture on her head. Withal, savage Peter was called "The Great." Last week on the white sands at Biarritz it remained incumbent upon Spain's fashionably tanned Alfonso XIII to state clearly which of Peter I's gargantuan examples he would like to follow "if it could be done...
...with the Harris fame came no fortune. The open Enquirer-Sun got few new subscribers, sometimes lost many old ones. One thousand subscriptions were cancelled after the initial Klan-basting. Fighting a fight where other Georgia papers feared to follow, the Enquirer-Sun never grew above 7,000 circulation, often went to many less. Mr. & Mrs. Harris stood alone...
...test on which Winner Huston scored 92 and lowest competitor above 60, the passing mark, was in four parts, running from specific questions to vague ones that were admittedly impossible to grade but gave characteristics of the boy. Some of the questions follow with the answers...