Word: oed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 400 U. S. city-manager-plan cities. Next largest is Cincinnati where last week a determined effort was being planned by old-line Republican politicians to gain control of the city council at the November election, to restore politics to the city government, oust able City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill...
Into the White House last week strode Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, brimming with big ideas. He had just been named head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee to maintain or augment a G. O. P. Senate majority in next year's elections...
...Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot...
...Grew, author of the smut-cracking comedy My Girl Friday, was mistakenly encouraged by its profits to display this naïve anecdote of innocence in Westchester County. In it romance is made difficult for a youth of the aristocracy and a peasant virgin; difficult also for Fiske O'Hara, who plays the lead and tries to ingratiate his audience by chatting and singing to them in an entr'acte...
...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...