Word: macon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wicked old women have always had uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity...
...Macon...
...rainy half hour R. L. McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...
...colleges and universities which form the approved list of the Association of American Universities, Randolph-Macon College (for men) at Ashland, Va., is the smallest (220 students...
Under the headings of Environment, Student Government, and Honor Systems, Religious Provisions and Agencies, and the like are grouped actual interviews with undergraduates of 23 colleges and universities ranging in type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...