Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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KANSAS: A bill is before the Legislature to make the possession of cigarettes or material for making cigarettes an offence punishable by imprisonment. Kansas already has a law against selling, or giving away cigarettes, but none against smoking them...
...talk in the series on "Four Great Poets", Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 brought out the fact that Dante merits an outstanding position among the world's literary creators because of his imagination, beyond that given to any other great poet, and because of his artistic skill, second to none and shown to best advantage in the exact balance of the three factors--conception, selection, and expression...
...Washington--the mightlest name on earth--long since mightlest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or brightness to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on". STOCKTON KIMBALL...
...really capable. Few can reach Senator Sheppard's mark of ten hours; none have threatened the world's record hung up by LaFollette back in the turgid days of 1908, when, without prompting, he said nothing continuously for eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes. On the other hand, Senator Sheppard eked out his discourse with selections from the Covenant of the League of Nations,-there being nothing else at hand sufficiently long to be helpful,-but these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect...
...Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that the audience is on the stage from the start, that there is none of the uncomfortable five minutes usually spent in backing and filling until the craft gets under weigh, is evidence enough of "Listening In's" skillful workmanship...