Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...70th Congress assembles on Dec. 5. Its component parts began filtering into Washington last week. In Denver, a special election returned S. Harrison White, Democrat, the victor over State Senator Francis J. Knauss, Republican, to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives left by the death of Representative William N. Vaile, Republican. That made the House membership...
...sincerely, non-scouting has failed to work. Some would cite prohibition, which instead of removing the evils it aimed at, has brought forth a new set of evils, rendered doubly had because they are under cover. Others might cite the suppression of allegedly improper books, which had they been left alone would have died their natural death quickly, but once advertised as improper, found their way into the playroom of every impressionable child...
Immediately two small black objects came hurtling through the air to be followed by two deafening detonations and a number of revolver shots. The glass left the general's car abruptly, some of it burying itself in his face; otherwise he was unhurt, as were his companions. Before they had time to recover the speedy Essex disappeared...
...Builder. The states of New York and New Jersey named the tunnel after Clifford Milburn Holland. In 1906, when he was 23, he left Harvard with both A. B. and B. S. degrees. At once he went to Manhattan, saying: "I am going into tunnel work and I am going to put a lot more into it than I'll ever be paid for." In his early 30's he was building simultaneously four street railway tunnels under the East River, between Manhattan and Brooklyn...
...Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose of an art which is better left unexplained. But reading fiction is not like watching a magician; it is more engrossing when the difficulties of writing are apparent. To any writer, to many an intelligent fiction reader, Author Forster's penetrating analysis will be as engrossing as the fictions it surveys...