Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although this view of the purity of Jesse James's motives has been widely accepted, his actions included the killing of a very large number of persons, chiefly sheriffs, and on one authentic occasion he and four companions attacked 60 Union soldiers and managed to kill 52. He made almost...
The Prince of Head Waiters (Lewis Stone). The Parisian hero is torn from his newlywed U. S. bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place...
"Those who know me can bear witness that it is not in my nature to inflict insult upon and to occasion pain to anybody and that it has been my effort to free myself from prejudice. Because of that I frankly confess that I have been greatly shocked as a...
A side issue, yet socially important, was the way in which the entire Lindbergh story emphasized the new "power of the press." As a molder of opinion on vital political issues, the newspapers may have almost ceased to function, but the development of press associations, of syndicates and of special...
"I am very happy to take advantage of this occasion to say a word with reference to the presidential succession. . . In the three years since he joined our teaching force there has been one of our colleagues. He is a scholar of the first rank, a man of strong, true...