Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal cars have a duplicate speedometer, visible to the Royal eye. All are washed, polished, greased every night. Fortnightly a representative of Dunlap Rubber Co. (slogan: Dunlap Tires as British as the Flag!) journeys to wherever in Great Britain the Royal cars may be and thoroughly tests the rubber of each tire, scanning minutely for nails, flints, stone-bruises. Thus the undignified spectacle of Majesty waiting for a burst tire to be changed is seldom or never presented to English eyes...
...Recently came Chief Machinist Friedrich Garbe, asking that he might become Friedrich Garbe-Emden. President von Hindenburg ruminated long, but last week the enabling decree was signed. Not only machinists Garbe-Emden and Junk-Emden, but any other survivors of the crew of the gallant cruiser who so desire may now legally hyphen-Emdenize their names "as a title of honor...
...original Mennonite was a Dutchman, Menno Simon, born while. Columbus was discovering America. He held that baptism may be performed only on the believer and recognized no authority except the Bible and one's enlightened conscience. During the 16th and 17th centuries, persecution of the Mennonites for such subversion doctrines was carried on in several European countries to the extreme of exterminating every Mennonite man, woman, and child who could be caught. Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during...
...educational art entirely but generally depicts robberies, disorders and the baser passions. The Municipality of Santiago will present in our new Children's Theatre plays especially written for children only. There will be some free performances so that the children of the poor, as well as the wealthy, may enjoy this wholesome influence...
This law provides that anyone who publishes "a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical is guilty of a nuisance" and may be enjoined from further publication. In the fall of 1927 two men started publishing a Minneapolis weekly paper called The Saturday Press. After publishing nine issues they were hailed into court and the publication ordered suspended. They pleaded that the law was unconstitutional. The Minnesota Supreme Court held otherwise. Under the law the two publishers were perpetually enjoined from publishing their "nuisance" under the name of The Saturday Press or any other name. The case...