Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harrisburg, Ill...
...agents to our fair shores. Men like Commander Van Zandt, whom few deny to be in the open pay of Moscow, make defamatory remarks about the young men who are some day to fight the battles of this country. Gold Star Mothers, their poverty played upon by Stalin's ill-gotten gold, are bribed to denounce the beauteous virgins whose pilgrimage to Flander's Fields is their only pious desire...
...circus has passed by, and Harvard hecklers may miss their yearly field-day, in which the collection of human emotions embraced practically everything but peace. A respectable demonstration in favor of peace will do much to dispell the clouds of ill-repute which have so often surrounded the cause at Harvard in the past...
...elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...
...Rescue from Oblivion department spotlighting such has-beens as Clara Bow, William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, the Dolly Sisters. Throughout the book were scattered caricatures of such thoroughly-caricatured celebrities as Ernest Hemingway, William Randolph Hearst. Joe Louis. Impartial observers guessed that the winters in Mt. Morris, Ill. must indeed be tiresome...