Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every evil and none of the virtues of Prohibition. It would be bureaucracy and bureaucracy-drunk! . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler. The fight is on. So far as I am concerned, I do not care whether it is in the Republican platform or not, it will be presented to the American people...
...been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...
...Ford Motor Co. President Edsel B. Ford and his father and mother still make that their private business. They own all the outstanding shares-172,645, of the company's 1,000,000 shares, and they can chat of their yearly earnings over the dinner table. So none will tell what they drew as last year's dividends, although $14,670,000 is as good a presumption as any. They took out that amount two years ago. However, they did have to declare how much money the company had made over and above all expenses. That...
...Crimson first year men, however, after being held to one run in the first inning and to none in the second, opened up a barrage of hits, which, with their opponents' errors, netted three runs in the third and five in the fourth...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...