Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Cuba, 'which he reached as Colonel of Rough Riders, General Wood was officially responsible for elimination of yellow fever. Even more to his credit, he taught the Cubans two entirely new ways of life ? sanitation, self-government. Typical of the esteem of his subjects was the occasion when...
Far from feeling grieved, frazzled, petulant, as the session nears its close, Senators give every evidence of being in the best of tempers. It has been an easy session. The Republican majority has had its own way, cheerfully assisted by Democrats who were glad to supply superfluous votes on nearly...
"We were in a first-class hotel at a gathering and I had occasion to go to the lavatory, the gentlemen's lavatory, and I was astounded to see there three young girls with three men and they were drinking out of a flask and handing it around."
"Brown of Harvard" has been shown in Boston once before. This was in April 1907, and was the occasion of the famous riot which occurred at the opening performance of the Majestic Theatre and which caused so much disturbance and comment both in the University and around Boston.
"The notorious Bulgarian sadist, Colonel Kousmazov, has quelled several riots by killing various suspected young men under the eyes of their parents and then forcing the latter to kiss publicly the hands of the dead. . . . Dogs were allowed to fight over the bodies of these men for days afterward. . . . On...