Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero Peat, 35, lecturer and anti-war propagandist, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, naturalized a U. S. citizen in 1922. In the War he served as a private (1914-1917), 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry, was gassed once, wounded twice, left on the battlefield 56 hours. His medals...
Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...
Martha Clark, 13, left her crutches on the grave...
That Harold Sheehan, 7, reported as having left his leg-braces at the grave, did not do so, according to his mother, and is still being sent to the Children's hospital for regular treatment...
Chairman? Chairman? As the delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives...