Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moron who shoulders uncomplainingly the unpleasant tasks of life. If any steps are taken to prevent the reproduction of morons, many lawyers, doctors, parliamentarians, preachers and Congressmen would have to go to work. . . . As a rule the ordinary moron works. . . .. The mass of the world's most important and also most disagreeable work is done by morons and others closest to the line. ... If we had no morons, it would seriously interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule...
...Cambridge, Mass., Sophomore Lawrence B. Cohen Jr., president of Harvard's Socialist Club, was arrested for handing out pamphlets expressing a Socialist welcome to the Socialist Prime Minister. Excerpt: "Do not be deceived; MacDonald is not a public menace, but he is a Socialist, and Labor candidates said last spring, 'We are not concerned with patching up the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism.' " Next day Socialist Cohen told newsgatherers he expected his father, said to be a wealthy Manhattan attorney, would disinherit him because "he has no sympathy with my statements...
Born in Cambridge, Mass., son of a Universalist pastor, Otis Skinner soon moved with his parents to Hartford, Conn. There he sketched passers-by on the streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading...
...Boston, Mass., a cat named Sarah, mother of 72, felt ill. After three days' agony she leaped to a store counter, wound a string around her paws and a decayed tooth, yanked out the tooth, felt better...
...Fitchburg, Mass., cinema house, James Raymond laughed so hard at a comedy that he swallowed his false teeth, fell down stairs. Someone shouted "Fire!" Soon an ambulance and fire engines arrived...