Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comfortable trolley-load of happy, willing politicians shook hands and slapped one another's backs, one day last week in the lobby of the Bigelow Hotel of Ogden, Utah. Far westerners to man, Democrats all, they had been invited there by Joseph Chez, Ogden lawyer, and Fred W. Johnson, lawyer from Rock Springs, Wyo. There was a knowing look in their eyes as they discussed the prime purpose of their meeting? to "consider" who was the "most available" candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination next year. They named no names until all had assembled for formal business...
...came to London. The two salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author and the conversation of the subject, admittedly the best...
...gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica had been preserved intact, as had letters from Boswell to his wife, to his sons, to William Pitt, to William Temple, to Edmund Burke, to Edmund Malone, to Isabella de Zuylen ("Zelide"), to Samuel Johnson...
Theodore J. Carron and Henry Koenig listening at different radios in Detroit dropped dead from excitement. Charles F. Brown died in Watertown, N. Y. James K. Chilson and George K. Johnson died in California. "NINE and Tunney is UP*; . . . backing away . . . now outboxing Dempsey . . .Jack trying to get Tunney where he can hit him . . . following . . . motions Gene to come in and fight . . . Dempsey comes in like a wild man. . . . Dempsey is DOWN from a hard left to the jaw. He is UP ... Dempsey's eyes are getting worse. . . . TUNNEY LOOKS MAD . . . drives hard on Dempsey...
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