Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despairing then, he hurries towards the exit portal of the sanctuary. And the last thing that greets his departing eye, at the end of the nave, is a telephone booth, designed as a fourteenth-century confessional. William Harlan Hale in The Nation
Five years ago the U. S. lawyer and one-time Interstate Commerce Commissioner, James S. Harlan, saw a camel race in the Sahara and thought it was great sport. Why not a Grand Prix of the Sahara? he asked his friends in Africa, and with their encouragement picked out a course, put up prizes: 2,500 francs to the winner and some gold jewelry (no tribesman is much interested in money by itself); second prize, 1,500 francs and silver jewelry; third prize 600 francs and a certificate. During his foreign tour, Mr. Harlan died, and since on his deathbed...
...Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts ; Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Major General Leonard Wood...
Died. Richard Davenport Harlan, 71, son of the late U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan, onetime Presbyterian president of Lake Forest College; of a throat infection; in Washington. His wife died three days prior...
Joseph Striker and Minor Watson as two of the suitors give creditable performances, while Harlan Briggs as the rejected fiance, a local banker, is genuinely comic. Mildred McCoy as the prospective mother just fails to produce a characterization; but is at least that far ahead of the rest of the ladies of the cast...