Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever mentioned the drawing room. The mark of a "gentlewoman" was consideration of others. Being late for an engagement was "ill-bred, vulgar, irresponsible or ostentatious...
...compare with the many who, even as President Roosevelt, "sat at the feet" of the immortal Royce are the hosts who dog-trotted at the heels of George Santayana. ERNEST SCHEIN Chicago, Ill...
...panic when trade unionists crippled commercial activity in the San Francisco area for three days. Following a city-wide walkout last July, Terre Haute was under martial law for six and a half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small slice of industrial war was sufficiently effective to cow 17,000 Pekinese for a day & a night...
...Joliet, Ill.'s Stateville Prison, guards opened the gates to let a truck drive out of the snow-covered yard, slammed them shut again when they spied six convicts sitting blandly on a bobsled hitched to the truck's rear axle...
...steam from the shower." some walls in the Yard have been washed two-thirds of the way up; but whether it was the work of the University or former occupants is unknown. At any rate, there are not a few rooms throughout the College that are ill-kept, and something should be done about them...