Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor...
Died. Robert Reid, 67, the artist who painted the murals in the Library of Congress, Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and...
"What pleased me most was when Mike exclaimed: 'Gee, Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me...
"The other day our lady Vice-Principal got onto a street car. She was wearing a brand new dress. I heard a woman in the seat back of me remark to her friend: 'Ain't it awful the way these women dress? You can't tell school...
The Living Corpse. In Moscow, toward the end of the 19th Century, it was a gypsy singer, her grave gypsy songs, and the sultry, southern wines which drew Fedya Protasov away from his home and a sweet wife who tried helplessly to forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips...