Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...
...signatures of three presidents, two emperors and a king were modestly but insistently besought, last week, by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg...
...expected the Rangers to win; they were facing many handicaps. Light and fast, they had to play the toughest, heaviest team in hockey, the Maroons of Montreal. It was hard to see how flashy skaters like Frank Boucher, Ranger centre, or Bill Cook and his brother Bun, the wings, could stand being bumped around by checks like Siebert, Button, Smith. The Rangers were playing all their games away from home. In the second game their goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads...
...referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank Boucher stabbed twice through the Maroon defense. No team representing an American city has won an important hockey trophy since Seattle took the Stanley Cup title in 1917. All the players on the Rangers are Canadians...
There are almost as many seasick cures as there are sufferers. Last week Drs. J. Frank Pearcy and Daniel B. Hayden of the University of Chicago Medical School advocated a new one, in the American Medical Association Journal. They had been working on ears and eyes in hospital and laboratory; they noticed that lowering the normal blood pressure by means of sodium nitrite decreased the dizziness and "seasick" feeling of subjects after they had been rapidly rotated. Believing that seasickness is caused by overstimulation of the labyrinth of the ear by the constant changing motion of boats, they decided...