Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Men shouted in alarm, women and children screamed. The glass top of the coffin was smashed in. Inside lay the false Blackamon, dead, his hands and face horribly gashed by broken glass. Losing his nerve in the midst of his performance, he had evidently, vainly, fought to free himself from being smothered alive...
...group of Chinese men gathered last week in a large dismal house in Hong Kong. They watched a man write figures on a board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver...
Chairman will be Frank Warrenner Blair, Union Trust president, onetime drugstore clerk. President will be Robert Owen Lord, head of Guardian Detroit Group. Modest, he gave credit for Guardian Detroit Group's success to his subordinates, described them as "very fine young men who are not afraid of hard work...
...Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle...
Fact & Farce. Another speaker, the Rev. Owen M. Dudley, called Dean William Ralph Inge and the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, "very ignorant men" because of their part in the movement against Anglo-Catholicism. The Church of England, said Mr. Dudley, is "fast becoming a farce. Numerically we [Anglo-Catholics] have just as much right to be the national church...