Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everybody that knows me knows that I am unable to operate an automobile. I never tried it in my life, and, what is more, I am never going to try it; and the statement that I was running the car myself down Broadway at fifty miles an hour is just as absurd as the other part...
...year-old twin sons of Gen. Charles Henry Montgomerie y Agramonte, heard that their father had celebrated his 98th birthday on the porch of his home in Popotla, near Mexico City, with many a friend and with the words: "All my life I have drunk Bourbon whiskey and I haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth-in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean...
This Thing Called Love. The author, Edwin Burke, believes that love "is the monkey wrench which life has thrown into the machinery of marriage." Perhaps, in the beginning, he wanted to deal with the thing seriously. But, with his gate in mind, he shambles into farce, ends with a drunken and melodramatic pistol shot...
...again exemplified in the discovery of the fact that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, whose kidnapping and murder of Bobby Franks five years ago aroused such tumult. At the time of their sentencing, capital punishment was not inflicted because the two sentences of 99 years for kidnapping and of life for murder seemed to guarantee their imprisonment for the rest of their lives, but due to an error the two sentences are being served at once and with good behavior they can be released after only ten years imprisonment...
...those unaccountable persons who invariably appear in such cases will soon come to plead for their speedy release. Hinton Clabaugh, Chairman of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, has discovered evidence of the fact that the young men are already profiting by their position to enjoy prison life in the greatest comfort. One may wonder at the prosecuting attorney who was so active in their prosecution making such a careless mistake; one may hazard a guess as to the action six years from now of the Parole Board that promised not to release them; and the only answer seems...