Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were all in a bad way. I told them who I was, and they asked me to free the bellhop, but I refused. There were at least 40 men in the room, and all of them were drunk...
ALFRED E. SMITH: A CRITICAL STUDY-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3.50). Mr. Pringle, an unassuming member of the Naked and Unashamed Club of free lance correspondents, reports frankly, fearlessly, sternly, not without humor...
Superintendent Bogan, a Roman Catholic, has held jobs in Chicago public schools for 20 years. His present appointment is for four years; salary, $15,000 a year. The board of education has promised him free- dom from political interference...
...Story of Jesus -Emil Ludwig-translated by Eden and Cedar Paul-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). Emil Ludwig of Napoleon and Bismarck fame now tries his hand at a more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly...
...Free balloon: An aerostat without a propelling system whose ascent and descent may be controlled by use of ballast or with a loss of the contained gas, whose direction is determined by wind...