Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace-loving Lawyer Levinson's address: 134 S. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill...
...babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
...told watching reporters that in November he would return to Broadway for a new show, Ripples. Playing with him in her first appearance will be Paula Stone, his 17-year-old daughter. Dorothy Stone, his 19-year-old, hurried to Manhattan last week to replace Ruby Keeler Jolson, ill, in Show Girl (TIME...
Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...