Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it...
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1? postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes.
There is a theory, especially prevalent on the Pacific coast, that when prose is printed in vertical snatches it becomes poetry. A current convert to this theory is Novelist Rupert Hughes, who has written an introduction for a book* by a Miss Virginia Church, California schoolteacher, in which he says...
"What pleased me most was when Mike exclaimed: 'Gee, Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me...
"I refused the invitation to the mountains; I corrected two hundred papers over the weekend, themes, grammar tests, and spelling. When I returned them to the morning class, 'Brick' chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them...