Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard a gun go off and a bullet whizz. I saw Johnny fall. He didn't cry; he just lay there still. I heard Helen cry out: 'Johnny, I'm shot...
Probe. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran reached California last week to see for himself just what the grape industry has become. Since 1920, California's vineyards have increased from 100.000 acres to 173,691 acres. It is Mr. Doran's duty, of course, to discover ways and means to prevent the diversion of legitimate grape juice into illegitimate wine. Last week he was ready to admit that legally it would be very difficult to stop. Politically it is a touchy problem, too. If the wet-voting city winemaker is prosecuted, for consistency's sake so must...
...writing. All that afternoon, all night, all the next day, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and his Latin colleagues toiled to document their offer, snatching only occasional catnaps, trying desperately to get the job done in time to have a few days' leeway for final dickering before M. Briand would be obliged to leave for the September session "of the League of Nations at Geneva...
Humbug. "I've gone from 'E. C.' to 'P. C.'," boasted Mr. Thomas once to a British Laborite audience. "That is, I began as an Engine Cleaner and now I'm one of 'is Majesty's Privy Councilors, but I guess you all know I'm still Jim!" Last week the clubbable Minister in Charge of Unemployment soon warmed up Canadians to a personal liking for his breezy, Welsh-Cockney wrays. In his first Canadian press interview, smart Jim Thomas sought to spike the charge that Mother Britain is not playing...
...city name "Trondhjem" (pronounced Tr?ny?m) seems melodiously beautiful to the sturdy Norse citizens who live there, on cheese and fish pudding, almost within the Arctic Circle...