Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President or a State Governor or legislator can do about fornication except to avoid this sin himself. Indeed the only thing he can do is to make difficult the practice of the ancient profession of prostitution, which is a commercialized and variously well or badly organized form of fornication-usually regarded as the lowest form...
...city. Last week, it loomed menacingly. To New Bedford had come a strike leader of a new type, with different and dangerous ideas. To the history of textile troubles in Passaic, N. J., Albert Weisbord* has contributed many a stormy chapter. And when he advanced on New Bedford to form the Textile Mills Committee, the heads of the old unions were disturbed. Weisbord's ideas were of violence and force, parades and riots. Public sympathy, most surprisingly with the strikers, might well be destroyed by violent methods...
Chanel. The fame of Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel has waxed since the War. Sweaters have made her name and her fortune, the light, boyish sweaters which form the sports costume of many an American and English woman. The story of Gabrielle is shrouded in mystery. Some say she is of Basque origin, the daughter of a peasant. Others declare her youth was spent in Marseilles, where the jerseys of sailors gave her the idea for the emancipated woman's golfing costume. Even today she is something of an enigma to gossip-loving Paris. "Coco" Chanel is not beautiful...
...results, in the form of phonograph records, will be put on sale in September at $1 each. Dr. Greet expects to make 14 records by December, including those of a Manhattan truckdriver, a Tennessee mountaineer, a pure Philadelphian. Eventually, he hopes to make 50 records...
Since the War, a community called University City has sprung up on the site of the old defensive walls of Paris. Senator André d'Honnorat gave it form and became its president. France, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, the U. S. and other countries built houses there for students. What was needed was a central administration building. Last fortnight, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. contributed $2,000,000 for that purpose. He had looked into University City last summer and Senator d'Honnorat had come to the U. S. last winter to study university methods...