Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More precisely, six: Plato, la.; Plato, Pulaski Co., Ky.; Plato, Houghton Co., Mich.; Plato, Minn.; Plato, Mo.; Plato Center, 111. Of these, Plato, Ga., was doubtless the "city" Agathon had in mind. Its population is by far the largest: 238. There are 13 Homers, from Alaska to Texas; one Homer City, (Pa.) ; two Homersvilles (Ga., Ohio). There is no Socrates, no Xantippe, but in Missouri there is a Huzzah...
...society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
...Baltimore, Md.; Carlisle Elwood Mau of Provo, Utab; William Mitchell of Washington, D. C., James Benjamin Powell of Ashland, O.; Howard Darker Sharp '25 of Tulsa, Okla.; Archie Harvey Siegel of Superior, Wis.; John Harvey Tracy of Chicago, III.; William Charles Waring Jr of Providence, R. I., and Homer Houston Woods of New Virginia...
Mary Miles Minter, onetime cinema actress: "When I was in the movies, my mother, Pearl Miles Reilly, better known as Charlotte Selby, controlled the money, before I became of age, and only last January I filed a suit demanding an accounting from her. And now my father, J. Homer Reilly, has also filed a suit asking for one-half of all the earnings I made while on the screen. I gave out no statement of the amount involved, but newspapermen last week placed it around...
...between the sixth and eleventh years. The next congress will be in London or Paris in 1930 or 1931. Prosthetists heard with acclaim that the phrase "false teeth" is to be deplored when "denture" more pleasantly describes the "exquisite creations of the master dentist of today" (Dr. Harry J. Homer of Pittsburgh); that every time a child eats a lollypop "he might as well say goodbye to one of his teeth," and for "every man who habitually eats soft, mushy foods" the human race is one step nearer utter toothlessness.* "Diet is the most important factor in keeping the teeth...