Word: four
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, next day, passed a few remarks on Washington drinking. Speaking in the Senate, he asserted that there are "four narcotic joints" in operation on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol...
...bunk." He had only glanced at two or three, and when he learned of Shearer's big-navy propaganda he had insisted on his discharge. Mr. Bardo admitted that Shearer was later re-employd by Laurence Russell Ilder on a project for building liners to cross the Atlantic in four days. On that project $143,000 had been spent on promotion but Shearer received only $5,000. Of the total, $24,000 went for hotel bills and entertainment in Washington...
...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...
Chronicles of more regent date make it clear, that Miss. Claire's personal glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need...
...Harvard for two years qualifies him to speak with authority, and undoubtedly many of the fatalities that reduce an average matriculating class of nearly 1000 to less than 600 at graduation may be laid to the fact that the college had nothing to offer the men in the four categories he mentions. It might be assumed that the eliminations are rather beneficial than tragic and that both students and university benefit from the severing of a connection that hinders both in attaining their real goals. But Mr. Nichols' explanation does not cover more than a fraction of the total number...