Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week sat a tall, clean-cut, smooth-faced man of 41. He was Judge Morris Victor Barnhill, the State's youngest judge, sent into the county by Governor Oliver Max Gardner to try an extraordinary case. Before him were 13 men, three women. Laughing, smiling, they looked more like college boys and girls than the Communistic strike leaders they were. They were charged with murder and conspiracy...
...Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
...townsfolk to Arrowe Park, where there were broad green fields, freshly-cleaned parade grounds, stately trees. There the great flag-decked omnibuses deposited boys in khaki-colored uniforms, each with bundles, and a pack upon his back. Soon tents, 40 acres of them, had sprung up in neat, army-like rows...
...Journal will not long be continued as a separate paper, said News-publisher Strong. Journal employes, he said, would be treated fairly-"newspaper men can't be sold down the river like slaves." There was a rumor that the Journal would be converted into a tabloid, but this rumor Mr. Strong denied...
...year 1347 King Charles of Bohemia, while hunting through a rocky, gorge-like valley, discovered that in the streams of the district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often...