Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surrender himself for slaughter. Rafael and Vitoria had their night. Before dawn the revolution broke. Hernandez was shot. Sergeant-Dictator appointed Rafael general in his place. The wise old soldier had been predicting revolution: "To be governed at all is bad enough, but to be governed by the same man for one, two, three, years-that is more than any one ought to be asked to endure. Always the same face, always the same proclamations, always the same way of stealing money. It is like having only one woman." An effervescent story, eminently readable, Tomorrow Never Comes is running-fire...
...formerly of the late Boni & Liveright, was convicted in Boston last week for violation of the Massachusetts statute forbidding distribution of objectionable literature. The book: Author Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The book's theme: how U. S. conventions and his own limitations caused a young man to murder his sweetheart...
Many, many years ago, before the two deadly products of the White Man-fire-arms and fire-water-had dispossessed the Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill...
Thirty years ago there came to Riker Motor Vehicle Co., of Elisabethport, N. J., (early auto makers) a young man recently returned from the Spanish War. This Johnny Who Had Come Marching Home wanted a job-salary requested, $14 weekly. Openhanded, the Riker people gave him $15. Last week the onetime soldier became president of Hudson Motor Car Co. He is William J. McAneeny, now president both of Hudson and of its allied Essex. Coming to Hudson in 1909, as purchasing agent, he advanced rapidly, was made first Essex president when the company was formed (1918). President McAneeny succeeds...
There really isn't anything particularly astonishing in the news that a prominent university president decries snap courses, especially if that man be President Lowell. But the metropolitan newspapers thought the information sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...