Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading a straight life after they are released. There are many clubs that can use a man occasionally: for example, a stamp club has wanted an experienced philatelist to speak to a group of young collectors; and a club frequently desires the services of someone who has done a lot of traveling, to tell of his adventures, and the sights he has seen. Sunday School teaching is another occupation that calls for many students, and in this as in the other vocations, there is often pay for experienced or otherwise qualified men. Volunteer work is greatly appreciated in every line...
...went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality in her first vaudeville part, which she achieved in 1907, and which consisted mostly...
...admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
...lunched Winston Spencer Churchill in Los Angeles. Announced Mr. Hearst: "I don't know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything that I know anything about and a lot of things that I don't know anything about. I am sure he enjoyed the conversation, because he fell into the most peaceful and profound slumbers, and remained there...
Intensive activity will undoubtedly be the lot of the University football squad this week as Coach Horween grooms his players for the 1929 opening on Saturday...