Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is but one of the problems to be solved at tonight's conference. Others involve the prohibition of artificial tees, and the regulation of shift plays and the screening of forward passes. The temporary rewriting of these laws, will come tonight at the Biltmore, and the session promises to be the most interesting in years...
...urged by friends to quit racing. He had had many accidents, was 30 aging. Friends bought Peter Manning, presented him to Geers, begged him to drive exhibitions only. Spirited, Geers could not refrain. He seldom whipped a horse, never raised his voice. He sat his seat immovable, hunched forward. Called "The Silent Man from Tennessee," Geers never swore. Neither did he drink alcoholics. His passions were cigars, clean sportsmanship, straightforwardness, philanthropy and ice-cream. A millionaire at his death, he died as he would have liked to-in a hot race. At Brooklands, England, another racing figure was killed...
General Dawes advanced into the glare, carrying on his arm an ancient gentleman, smoking a stogie, whom the light disclosed as Joseph G. Cannon. After a prayer had been rendered, Uncle Joe said a few mellifluous words. Former Representative Albert Jefferis, of Nebraska, then came forward to tell General Dawes that last June the Republican National Convention had nominated him for Vice President. Mr. Dawes gave his answer in his first sentence...
...that I recognize that the Ku Klux Klan in many localities and among many people represents only an instinctive groping for leadership, moving in the interest of law enforcement, which they do not find in many cowardly politicians and office holders. But it is- not the right way to forward law enforcement...
...Pulitzer read omnivorously. ... Like most of us who were fed educationally on Homer in our youth, Mr. Pulitzer reserved the Odyssey as a treasure to be enjoyed in later years. He had long looked forward to the celebrated episode of the wooden horse. Coming to the event he found it described in seven rather dull lines. 'I was so d-d mad,' he remarked, 'that I could have kicked Homer...