Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chaplain at the Pen. In fact, I was never in it before, having come to Colorado in September of this year. I am Chaplain at Holy Cross Abbey, and teach Psychology and English. I have been criticised for not going in this Cellhouse and persuading them to give up. Under the circumstances, that was quite impossible. I was also dressed for golf, and was on my way to the Club, when a young lady told me her Daddy was trapped by the convicts within the Pen. "Greater love hath no man, than a readiness to lay down his life...
Like many a young woman now earning a good living in the show business, Lenore Ulric never had much luck until she went to work for David Belasco. Her father was a steward in an army hospital in Milwaukee. She was born in New Ulm, Minn. She ran away from the 5th grade to be a cigaret girl in a stock-company Carmen. She told Belasco where she had played-Chicago, Grand Rapids, Schenectady. She had walked into the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed...
Biggest man of the week in France was Edouard Daladier, never big before. Young for a statesman, he is but 45. Less than a dozen years ago he was teaching history in the public schools of sleepy Orange. Stocky, pugnacious, eloquent he caught the eye of the boss-politician of central France, famed Edouard Herriot, spellbinding Mayor of Lyons. Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return. When Mayor Herriot became Prime Minister in 1924 he popped Henchman Daladier into the Ministry of Colonies, later...
...probe was never completed. Plum celebrated his escape with a statue. Grotesque, it rises on Plum Island, symbolically depicting the God Thor victoriously wrestling with demons of the underworld...
...usual American atmosphere of optimistic trust that a democracy chooses the best men for its offices, there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another wields witty puns on the straight and the Curley; charges break from harmless general statements and turn to reciprocal specific slanders...