Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice on the pavement. The Maine. Almost 30 years ago, in theatres, in parks, in fairgrounds a thousand brass bands played "Dixie" and a song that started, "Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought to be ashamed. . . ." People sang the words and waved their caps; the whole...
...both Indiana Senators asked that a parole be given the onetime Governor. Public sympathy mounted even higher when it was hinted that when indicted the Governor had refused a Klu Klux Klan offer of immunity in exchange for naming a certain candidate for public prosecutor; that he had named instead William H. Remy who then acted in the Governor's prosecution. This time public sympathy had effect; last week onetime (1921-24) Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, now convict 17746 in the Atlanta Penitentiary,* was granted a parole...
More potent, politically, than the teachers were the contractors of Chicago. They were annoyed with Mr. McAndrew because he had insisted that appropriations and contracts for new school buildings be based upon actual requirements, as discovered by annual surveys, instead of voted and handed out with grandiose political generosity...
...North American Review, born 1815, and thus the oldest magazine in the U. S., will (with the October issue) become a monthly instead of a quarterly. It will remain an "article" magazine dealing with current events. More sprightliness, timeliness, is promised...
...Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...