Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the figure of Marguerite appears, just as it might be conjured up by Faust's own fancy. The philosopher declares for pleasure at any price. The stage is darkened for a moment, and there appear seated at a table the youthful Faust and the youthful Mephistopheles, the latter a leader in all the conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made to restore to Gounod's musical classic a dramatic illusion in story that...
...Hoover. Candidate Hoover answered the Borah questionnaire on Prohibition by calling the latter "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" which he does not favor repealing and which, "of course," he stands for enforcing vigorously, sincerely. "It must be worked out constructively," said Candidate Hoover, leaving public information about where it was. Clarence Darrow, cynic lawyer, tried to illuminate by announcing, in Cincinnati: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with...
...Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation under the defamed Daugherty regime. Another argument which, though it failed to impress Justice Siddons, the Sinclair lawyers may try out on the U. S. Supreme Court, is this: that Sinclair hired the Burnses to shadow the jurors to protect the latter from being tampered by Sinclair's "enemies"-i. e. the U. S. Government...
Captain Ward and P. K. Fodder are expected to star in the Yale offense. The latter is the second highest scorer of the Intercollegiate Basketball League. HARVARD 1931 YALE 1931 Seoger, r.f. l.g., Linehan Dutton, l.f. r.g., Holloway Mahady, c. c., Thomas Foshay, r.g. l.f., McGowan Farrell, l.g. r.f., Horowitz...
...Airedale," crawled into the cold air chute of a furnace belonging to one Michael Cronin. For three days he remained in this chute, barking, scratching, yelping, trying to jump out. At last, annoyed by his outcries, Michael Cronin called the police and the fire department. A member of the latter had himself lowered into the chute by rope; he pulled the Airedale out, sent him home...