Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis Glassman, perpetrator of 110 burglaries and several jail breaks, asked for a Bible in the Springfield (Ill.) jail last week. None could be found on the premises; jailers rushed to a neighbor- hood mission, satisfied the convict...
Harry Hyman Cutter '29 of Malden has been nominateed for president of the Sophomore class by a petition signed by 25 members of the class, it was announced last night by the Executive Board. Further nominations will be received till 12 o'clock tomorrow. None will be accepted after that hour. The ballots will be sent out as soon as possible after the closing of the nominations, and a week's time will be allowed for their return. In order to facilitate the completion of the elections, members of the class are asked to return the ballots as quickly...
Three motor cars lately jounced and bounced along the dusty pot-holed road into Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, ancient seat of Khans, golden city of Western poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff...
...None the less, last week this legendary Morgan Eve was the occasion for a crisp announcement to the press. It read: "Mr. Francis Dwight Bartow, Mr. Arthur Marvin Anderson and Mr. William Ewing, who have hitherto held procuration for our firm in New York, are this day admitted as partners in our firms in New York (J. P. Morgan & Co.), Philadelphia (Drexel & Co.), London (Morgan, Grenfell & Co.) and Paris (Morgan...
...young author of Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo and The Sailor's Return does none of these things. In his matter-of-fact fashion, so quiet that it becomes mysterious, he makes her father a sort of pocket-borough St. Francis of Assisi. He fills her heart with restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale...