Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Better Element having forgotten it was in politics, and "the town" being weary of her welldoing, Mrs. Landes was defeated for re-election by Frank Edwards, a retired Seattle showman. This time the Mayor-elect's margin was 19,000 votes...
Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign...
Reconciled. Dorothy Cumming, whose contract as the "Blessed Virgin" in the cinema play The King of Kings forbids her from the "appearance of evil" for at least seven years; with the father of her two children, Frank Elliott, from whom she was divorced last December...
...Frank Phillips, president of the Phillips Petroleum Co., reported net profits of $4,937,931 (previous year: $21,407,709); pointed to general overproduction of crude oil and gasoline throughout the industry; told that Phillips Nu-Aviation gasoline has been contracted for in Government air mail service...
During the first week in April, 40 upper classmen, most of them Seniors, will hold office hours and give Freshmen frank information upon courses of study in the various fields. Each field of concentration will be represented, some by one Senior, and the larger fields by several men, one for each important sub-division. The advisers will be men of high academic standing who are qualified to criticize most of the courses in their special fields, and to advise Freshmen of the relative value, interest, of difficulty of the courses as they have found them...