Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine thing for your readers-a far better thing for them than most of them realize. Several years ago Mr. Banks played against Robert Stewart (in Scotland) for the championship of the world: Mr. Stewart won by two wins to one-with 47 drawn games. . . . I realize . . . that your mail will not be likely to bring you a very favorable reaction to the proposition. The ability of Mr. Banks, as our foremost match player, as a player and analyst of international fame and as an editor has long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe...
...when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...
...have been received. I am well aware of this expiration and assure you that I enjoy reading your publication, but regret that certain conditions prohibit me from renewing my subscription at present. As my address shows I am living at an hotel where the help are very careless with mail. I have failed to receive quite a number of copies of TIME and have gone to the office several times to get my mail and found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence...
...there is more in the Sacco-Vanzetti case than is contained in a bare recital of its facts and dates. During one morning last week the first mail alone brought to Governor Fuller 57 letters, some urging intercession, others protesting against intercession for Shoemaker Sacco, for Fish-peddler Vanzetti. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament cabled Governor Fuller, demanding a new trial, viewing with horror the approaching executions of two men whose guilt they question. Last week 7,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, roared "Stop the murder of Sacco & Vanzetti." In London, in Paris, in The Hague...
...ballots for the Student Council elections were put in the mail last night and should be in the hands of the members of the Junior and Sophomore classes today...