Word: mer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lucien Guitry, 65, famed French actor, father of Dramatist Sacha Guitry; in Paris. He often acted with Sarah Bernhardt. His fear of mal de mer prevented him from carrying out frequent plans for coming...
Undoubtedly in the past, managers of American railway and other mer gers have not always provided adequately for the minority stockholder. On the other hand, minority stock-holders have sometimes adopted a purely obstructive attitude in order to be bought off. In the present Nickel Plate case, neither extreme will probably be witnessed...
Public violence flourishes in Mer Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
LOUISIANA: Attorney-General Coco completed his investigation of the Mer Rouge murders, and is prepared to submit his findings to a grand jury...
...life." If the modern successors of Poe are still popular, there must be a reason for it. If men still want to know that 57 lynchings were recorded during the year 1922, that the Herrin murderers are to be punished, and that two men were tortured in the Mer Rouge outrage, it must be the fault of "life", and not primarily of literature. One optimistic critic offers the suggestion that it is not even a "fault" really. Men read of murders because their own daily life is so far away from them. And from a second point of view...