Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violent attacks which have been launched against you because of your endeavor to range every available force on the side of prohibition are, in my opinion, wide of the mark, and are based either on hostility to law enforcement, or on ignorance of the precedents which support your action." It was signed by Gifford Pinchot. It referred to the President's executive order permitting state constables to be sworn in as Federal prohibition enforcement agents...
Peace Report. The "peace commission" consisted entirely of Fundamentalists?including Dr. McAfee and Dr. Mark A. ("Lion of the Lord") Matthews of Seattle?but largely of tolerant Fundamentalists (i. e., Moderates...
then to writing, and got famous under the name of Mark Twain. The college man was unveiling a monument to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn done in bronze by Frederick Hubbard. He told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent...
...sweepstakes. Hearst-Editor Brisbane acted as chief referee-a post held in past years at Indianapolis by Henry Ford, Charles M. Schwab. . . . After something more than three and a half hours of breathtaking skids and recoveries, the judges decided to flag down the first car passing the 400-mile mark as the winner-declined to let the race proceed until someone was killed. Frank Lockhart of California, driving a Miller Special at an average speed of 94.63 miles an hour, crossed the 400-mile mark first, received $20,000 for winning the race, $9,600 more for covering the fastest...
...Century Mark Falls...