Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London the reduction of all fleets so that the U. S.-British level of potency may be as low as possible. Reporter Hoover. On Sunday the President telephoned in to Washington (see p. 13) and told his secretary to tell the world that the Five-Power Parley invitations would go out at once. Conference date: January 20. Orator MacDonald. On Monday, the Prime Minister addressed the Senate. Aside from his keynotes (see above), his gist was this: "Gratifying progress has been made and the conversations are continuing." His mood was this: "Ah, Senators! As long as you conduct your negotiations...
...moron who shoulders uncomplainingly the unpleasant tasks of life. If any steps are taken to prevent the reproduction of morons, many lawyers, doctors, parliamentarians, preachers and Congressmen would have to go to work. . . . As a rule the ordinary moron works. . . .. The mass of the world's most important and also most disagreeable work is done by morons and others closest to the line. ... If we had no morons, it would seriously interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule...
...Wiggins. Shea said that Danny Daniels had walked up to Wiggins at an appointed hour, grinned and shot him through the temple with his 48 calibre pistol. Then he had turned to Marvin Duncan, another captured guard, and said: "Prepare yourself. You're next." They let Shea go because he had been "a pretty good old plug." Daniels had offered the guards' lives as the price of free exit for himself and his four followers in the revolt which began at noon. Daniels had also demanded in repeated messages and shouted parleys that Warden Francis Eugene Crawford supply...
...been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While...
...these added profits, the greatest share will probably go to the American Tobacco Co. Forced to segregate many of its properties in 1911 under the anti-trust law, American Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most...