Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang and the late President Harding, dragged out again and jumbled in with a lot of other sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built to reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California...
Where do you get the idea that your readers want to be plastered with a lot of humbug about Coolidge? . . . That weekly babble you hand out is disgusting. I would not give ten cents in ten years to read about Coolidge much less ten cents a week...
...intended either to shoot Mussolini or to bomb him, whichever seemed surest of success. ... I told none of my friends. I had no accomplices. I just threw the bomb. I knew that if it killed Mussolini I should be killed. ... I am sorry the bomb only wounded a lot of men in the street. . . . My temperament has always been profoundly misogynistic [woman-hating...
...devious complexities which constitute a schedule of courses may make it necessary to postpone the beginning German examination until the end of the period. The exigencies of examination groups are often disheartening. But even considering this, one can only sympathize with the unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...
...This is going to be a big surprise to a lot of people...