Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean, rather handsome young Irishman, his face prematurely stern and sad, set out last week from his home at Black Rock, near Dublin, to attend mid-day mass. He walked alone and swiftly, scuffing up tiny clouds of earth from the road. His wife or his baby daughter may have been in his mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal...
Died. Dr. Garrett Droppers, 67, onetime (1914-20) U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro, professor emeritus of political economy at Williams College; following a nervous breakdown and paralytic stroke; in Williamstown, Mass...
...little known anthracite coal deposits of Rhode Island and Massachusetts will furnish local coal to New England this winter, said Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge, Mass., research chemist last week. The New England anthracite is very difficult to burn and contains 33% ash. But after treating by the "Trent" process it can be made low in ash, free burning and smokeless...
...Madeiros, respited along with Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti, is to be electrocuted for the murder, in November, 1924, of a bank cashier. He was a member of a bandit group known as the Morelli gang, has claimed that this gang murdered the South Braintree (Mass.) paymaster and guard for whose deaths Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti are sentenced to die. He has sworn that neither Mr. Sacco nor Mr. Vanzetti belonged to the Morelli gang, nor were they in any way involved in the South Braintree crime. Mr. Madeiros was first sentenced to be executed in September, 1926, but his connection with...
...Healy arose, furious. No chandelier could fall on him and not be punished. Not on your-ugh-life! He kicked the tangled mass, fetched a poker and beat it, smashed it, crashed it, until his comrades fell into the spirit of the thing and started flinging other things about the room-glasses, salvers, cruets, chairs, ale bottles...