Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lebanon, Ill., one Bertram Smith, college student, chewed 45 sticks of gum, broke the world's chewing gum record, got diabetes from excess of sugar...
...Collinsville, Ill., a contest was held on "Homecoming Day" to find the biggest liar in Southern Illinois. A $20 gold piece was awarded one Ernestine Smith, editress of the Columbia (Illinois) Star. The lie: her auto fell into a mudhole, sank in three weeks to Singapore, China...
...what has come to be looked upon as shady business. Whether it has been altogether wise to place the management of the concessions in the hands of the College Employment Office is another matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing an equitable distribution of jobs between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase...
...Ill-famed in Boston was the daily Telegram, scandalmonger. When its publisher, Frederick Wr. Enwright, was jailed in 1927 for having published a libelous cartoon of Mayor James Michael Curley, the Telegram was already dead. Publisher Enwright's present venture is a Telegram-News in Lynn, Mass. Last fortnight, this sheet gave an exhibition of a brand of journalism almost extinct...