Word: manly
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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...
...murder? Last week a Boston jury decided that it did, that Harry Canter had criminally libeled Mr. Fuller, now out of office. The court would hear no evidence whereby Canter sought to interpret or justify the words on his placard. Judge Robert F. Raymond gave this lecture: "This man is of the working class and works eight hours a day or less. I am of the leisure class and work 16 hours a day. . . . The sentence will not be as severe as it would be if a rich and prominent man were here as defendant...
...William Randolph Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
Politicians, reading the Organization's first manifesto, paused to ponder these words: "We deplore the evident hypocrisy of many of those who hold or seek public office. Too often it is cynically assumed that so far as the Volstead law is concerned a man's acts need not conform with his votes. We believe in exposing such hypocrisy, because such men are unfit for any public trust...
...Beck's vote took courage. The industrialists of Pennsylvania, led by Joseph R. Grundy. had demanded the high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...