Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes, and free but educated preferences-a genuine culture, in short. The Denver City Club was quick to offer Judge Lindsey a further hearing. He reiterated his thesis from the platform, adding points: "Chastity and continence are more theoretical than real. They are not natural. . . . Any effort to get any sense into our domestic relations is handicapped at the beginning by the confusion of such popular terms as, 'free...
...Manhattan lawyer and I filed papers at Albany, N. Y., last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned up two of my companions. If successful this...
...Cambridge and Chicago, for instance might prove of great use in bringing about that coordination of criminals, which is now so sadly lacking and which stands as a stubborn obstacle in the way of unified crime. We even go so far as to indorse such a service and to offer our plans for the opening ceremonial call, The underground connection having been established we set a definite time on such and such a day for the official inauguration of the latest and grandest achievement of science. The leading thugs and gunmeu of our great middle Western metropolis will congregate...
...class of which I am a member except myself received from your institution of hire learning a circular letter advising him that a review in that subject would be held at a specified time this week. Incidentally, the letter also urgently advised the gentlemen to take advantage of this offer or they would live to regret it, but that after all is neither here nor there. The point at issue is that I am deeply insulted and mortified that my name is not on the register of those fit to be invited to parties of that nature, and intend...
...Ballyhoo. A maudlin play stutters about the love of Starlight Lil, circus-rider, for an irreproachable young man. She considers herself unworthy. To free the boy from his passion for her, she pretends to offer herself as the stake in a cowpunchers' card game. That makes the hero so angry, he rushes out into the night, divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover...