Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother, Katharine Medill, had planned that he should become publisher of the Tribune and his brother Robert R. should go into public life. So they began. Medill served with the Tribune for some time; but when Theodore Roosevelt broke from the Republican ranks in 1912, Medill cast his lot with the Progressive Party- and doing so was elected to the State House of Representatives. Two years later, he was reflected, and about at that time resigned his post on the Progressive National Commitee. In 1916, he was back in the Republican Party, taking an active part in the convention...
Cape Smoke. Since White Cargo has run over 500 performances and has been sued for plagiarism, the necessity of an imitation was obvious. This new African adventure is a good deal louder than White Cargo and a lot funnier. Most of the laughter...
...affinity. Yet they love each other and sit down to have the whole thing out. Most humans would have grabbed each other and tired of the affair before Joyce's characters stop talking about it. They deal with passion in paragraphs and prefaces. No doubt a lot that they say might be said, unheard, inside of any of us under similar circumstances. But it does not form a very fiery evening in the Theatre...
...more men would get the conception of service to others and think less of the almighty dollar, the world would be a lot better off. . . . I want to help Colgate bring out boys of high calibre, with Christian character, of service to the world...
...Perhaps these notices are but a hoax; perhaps no liquor will be served. But the thing suggests what I had hoped was a vanishing evil,--a lot of maudlin, loud-voiced and excited 'good fellers,' flushed and silly and unmanly, who next day will feel very much ashamed...