Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scare. Photographic copies of the note, the fingerprints of the child on the paper, an exhaustive investigation of police archives for possible data on "Feagan's gang", formed part of the attempt to trace the criminals to their lair. The Boston Globe gets excited and suggests a crime in front page headlines...
...soon as the legality of the exchange has been verified by P. J. Nelligan, City Solicitor, Harvard will assume ownership of the Holmes Place, the vacant lot in front of Austin Hall, and Cambridge will take over the triangle between Broadway and Cambridge Street, it was announced yesterday at the Mayor's Office. The Holmes Place is now city territory, while on the present University property, where the City plans to erect a fire station, stands the Rogers Building, which was the old Germanic Museum and is now a store house and carpentry shop...
...became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries of Western Europe, like England, France and Germany, it gradually forced itself to the front, either by pacific or by revolutionary tactics. In these countries we see not only the establishment of liberal governments, with constitutional and parliamentary principles, but the evolution, in the second half of the nineteenth century, of the more radical movements of political and social quality...
...front of the ancient desk in the East Room of the White House stood a restless group of photographers in a little forest of tripods. Behind the desk stood a group of Senators, Cabinet Members, State Department officials. At the desk, of course, sat President Coolidge, in frock coat and wing collar. On his right sat Vice President Dawes, on his left, Secretary of State Kellogg, behind his chair stood Idaho's square-faced Borah and Virginia's militant Swanson. All eyes turned toward the green morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace...
...Every day the police on duty at the gates receive parcels of stuff which are delivered in person. One old lady rode up from the country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which...