Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...None Was Present...
...Hindenburg was offered the historic golden goblet of Stuttgard, a tankard fit for Thor,* brimming with native Suabian wine. Dismayed, he cried, "I certainly can't empty that!" None the less he tippled good-humoredly and downed a stiff Prussian toast...
...more notable guests, mounted the platform and began to say a prayer, which was broadcasted to several million people by means of a microphone placed in front of his mouth. The occasion was one of the most important which had ever taken place in that Cathedral, being none other than a dedication of the foundation stone of the enormous nave designed by Architect Ralph Adams Cram...
...Gilbert died. The Doctor offered a reward of $500 to any medium who could give him a message from her-certified of course by the countersign. First 139 mediums tried for the money, but to none of them had the dead Mrs. Gilbert communicated the password. More letters began to come in. Dr. Gilbert asked the co-operation of Editor Wright. The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman...
...contest the Yale backfield was under oath to kick anything over the bar that wasn't imported, to send every pass out to the sidelines, and to kill all the Scotch on the field. The Harvard team swallowed hard but made no statement. It was fortunate that none was asked for, Harvard was thinking of the Old Army Game...