Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would examine the parents upon their fitness to have a son in college and most certainly upon their qualifications to decide wheth-er he should go there. Where parents fail to pass, the matter should be left for decision to the headmaster or to the high-school principal...
Died. Edward A. Noonan, 77, onetime (1889-93) mayor of St. Louis; in St. Louis; a suicide (revolver). A note he left read: "Speak of me as a successful lawyer...
Gong. At 10:30 of a busy morning on the New York Stock Exchange a gong clanged. All operations were suspended. Busy traders left their posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July...
...enigmatic Jennifer Baird. Roddy she almost forgot, until once he came to see her and said, "It's no good trying to make me adequate. . . . I'm not worth saving. Nobody must ever take me seriously. . . ." This was a warning which Judith could not heed. When Jennifer left Cambridge, Judith stayed. For two summers she went abroad. Then when Judith went home she found Mariella and the three boys, living again in the house next door...
...When he left his college education behind him at Amherst, he married and became a minister. A little man with a juicy, passionate face, he charmed the women of every congregation before which he preached. Men, as a rule, did not like him. After a period of years he found himself at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, the pastor of a flock of golden sheep, from whose charge he derived a yearly income of $20,000, even now a generous stipend for any preacher. No doubt Henry Ward Beecher deserved such recompense for his services; he was called the most eloquent preacher...