Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern education has devised expedients which give free rein in a large latitude to the individual fancy. The sense of community of interest among many working in several fields for a common aim favors breadth and vision...
Martha Norelius in a swimming meet in New Brunswick, N. J., broke by four seconds the world's record for a 300-metre free style. Her time...
...Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then refused to give the citizens of Oklahoma City a free look at the plodders, made them run across lots to a circus tent. Admission to the tent was through a turnstyle. Inside the tent Red Grange presided. Said a wag, "If any more runners drop out Red will have to get in the race himself." Runner Mike Baze...
...wife, Mamie, with the "advantage of canned goods, and delicatessen shops with every delicacy from salads to cold turkey" is free to play bridge and "get a lot of culture" at her William Lyon Phelps Ladies' Book and Literary Society...
...best friend is Mortician Mack McMack whom he admires for having installed really fine mortuary apartments which paid for themselves in less than 17 months. The mortuary equipment includes "a pile of nice linen handkerchiefs for the bereaved, all absolutely free . . . and a casket that slides out of the back room into the chapel-drawing room on a little electric trolley, as if by magic . . . thus giving a feeling of awe and mystery...