Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes condemns them to dullness or leads them to light. To call him an actor is perhaps to flatter, perhaps to foil. Yet after all, higher learning is amusement--or it is dead. So the lecturer and the vaudeville artist have something in common, more than either would willingly grant...
...President formally approved a sentence of death imposed by a court martial on Lieutenant John S. Thompson, U. S. A. The Lieutenant had pleaded guilty to the murder of a young woman in the Philippines. The father, a minister on Long Island, asked the President to grant clemency on the ground that his son was insane. But the President confirmed the sentence. It is believed to be the first death sentence ever imposed by a U. S. court martial in peacetime...
...classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford connecting rods, and beneath...
What is more than Mr. Ritchie's announcement that he will try for a third term as Governor, is the fact that politicians expect his people to grant...
...decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life as a grocery clerk in Providence, married his employer's daughter and made a career for himself by doggedness and a keen mind. When he first went to Washington he made a close friend of General Sheridan and from him learned Grant's way of getting results on the battlefield, and Mr. Aldrich made politics his battlefield. He was a confidant of McKinley and close to Roosevelt. He made his plans with care and he executed them with pressure. He did not care for the opinions of others and almost never read...