Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tabloids went wild with headlines about "Lindy and Anne," " 'We' now a Trio," etc. etc. Arthur Brisbane pontificated: "It is pleasing to know that the chain of Lindbergh's ancestry stretching back across the ocean to powerful men in the North is not to be broken." Instead of sharing the not altogether delicate Brisbanal anticipation of a Lindbergh son and heir, other commentators preferred to ponder the social evolution represented in the conjunction of the Lindbergh tradition and the House of Morgan. The late Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. (1860-1924) was a "radical" Congressman from Minnesota...
...Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money is spent at home, to his indirect enrichment, the German's tax payments are largely wrested from the Fatherland in the form of Reparations thus impoverishing instead of enriching, as all other nations...
...moving the goal posts back to the goal line were not acted upon, and Glenn Warner's suggestion that points be scored for first downs was met with laughter, rules regarding the "dead fumble" and the try for point after a touchdown from the two-yard line instead of from the three-yard line, were among those adopted...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...
...like Judge Jr., or rather used to like him, for the original Judge Jr. is at present editing "Life" (Now 10 cents!--Advt.) instead of Judge, then you may like this collection of mixings they are gotten up in his same so-called collegiate manner which automatically rubs most normal people the wrong...