Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Heflin's flat anti-Smith declaration was saved up until last week at Dothan, Ala., a town with a newspaper (the Eagle) which has said: "Oh Heflin . . . Oh Hell!" Cried the Senator, "I will vote against Al Smith, so help me God!" and exhausted most of his time with his well-known Anti-Catholic tirade...
...Recording-Secretary Mrs. Jeanette C. Beach of the W. C. T. U. of New York tried to help Hoover carry that state by crying out: "You have the choice of voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
...poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received their education, free of charge, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris...
...angry pig. Columbia held Cornell for downs on the one inch line. Kenneth Provincial beat New York University for Georgetown by scuttling 87 yards for a touchdown. The population of Blair, Ohio, sat in the stands at Columbus, wearing ribbons and buttons, to watch Native Mike Miles of Princeton help score on Ohio State...
Olszewska, speeding by train toward Chicago, took no notice. Superb singing, she hoped, might eradicate the stain. A good appearance, too, would help and remembering that the first rehearsal was early next day, that her one pair of shoes was dusty, she slipped them outside the compartment door. In the morning there were no shoes, polished or unpolished. Knowing no English, wanting no more scenes, Olszewska stole from the train in her red bedroom slippers, drove at once to the shopping district, scuffed up and down Michigan Avenue till she could find shoes worthy of a prima donna's first...