Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to understand why this condition is allowed to continue year after year. A large percentage of the property in this country is insured against loss by fire, and a man who fails to provide for his family by taking out life insurance is censured; yet, when smallpox is introduced into a community in the United States it usually finds many victims who have never been vaccinated and others who have not been vaccinated for many years. Nearly 34,000 cases of smallpox in the United States in the calendar year 1927 testify to the neglect of the people...
...rage actually occurred in San Pedro, Calif., in 1923. Strikers were imprisoned and when imprisoned they were compelled to stop singing their "wobbly" songs. By sentimentalizing this repression, and by causing his hero, Red Adams, to die in solitary confinement after dreaming dementedly of the scenes of his life, Author Sinclair has concocted a tract which will bring cheers only from those who agree with...
...Louis, and somewhat alarming, when he founded the Post-Dispatch. Born in Mako, Hungary, in 1847, of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...
...this cosmopolitan atmosphere was no surprise to Rector Ray's congregation. Since the church was founded by Dr. George Hendrick Houghton it has been a tradition that people come to services there from all walks of life, all races and creeds. Rector Ray is the third rector at the Little Church Around the Corner in all the 80 years of its existence, his immediate predecessor having been Dr. George Clarke Houghton, nephew of the founder. The custom at the Little Church Around the Corner is for the actual rector to name his successor. So knowing Rector...
Died. Alice Mary Longfellow, 78, eldest daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by his second wife Frances Elizabeth Appleton; at the Longfellow family home, "Craigie House," in Cambridge, Mass. Miss Longfellow spent most of her life in the interest of women's education, as a founder and adviser of Radcliffe College ("Harvard Annex"). As a daughter of one of the most famed of Boston "Brahmins" her literary connections were many. She was the last survivor of a dinner party given in 1868 at Boston's old Parker House by Charles Dickens. But her memory will be most sharply recalled...