Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waggoner was last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving off his mustache. Arrested, he admitted his guilt, said that he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail, maintained that it was better for the depositors of the six Manhattan banks to lose $500,000 than for that loss to be concentrated on the depositors of Telluride. It was believed also that he had a grudge against Eastern capitalists who had purchased and closed down (to eliminate...
...years. To do this the Fund will issue non-interest-bearing debenture bonds.* A part of each donation will be deposited in the National City Bank so that the accruing compounded interest will assure the return of the original capital. Furthermore, the organization will insure the life of each beneficiary. Prospective loaners are re-assured that only 3% of student loans are defaulted, that money loaned to the Lin- coln Fund will be sent directly to the institution the student elects, that in helping to pay a student's fees, they are also helping many an impoverished institution. Sample...
...ground of the demand for extended facilities for divorces, birth prevention and the like? Simply that these instincts and passions are entitled to self-gratification, though in seeking it they contravene Christian or even natural law. . . . How can those who deliberately interfere with the natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful self-gratifications more imperious than it would...
...Wells used a phrase like this: 'Life will use me for its purpose.' That appears to me exactly like a man jumping from the top of Westminster Cathedral and saying, The force of gravity will...
...lamentable victim of bad drama is Elsie Ferguson, surely one of the most genteel and talented of players. In recent years she has several times displayed her auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...