Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profession is proved by the confusion of terms. To the next generation, the argot of the American hobo will be as incomprehensible as that of Villon's thieves, because apparently there is no one capable of setting them down now. Why doesn't TIME, for a time, open its columns to authoritative bum's language, so that the poets and novelists of future days will have something to go by when mooning over the curious existence of the trainride-stealing American hobo, circa...
Having shunned the issue for three years, the Deputies were faced last week with ratifying the Mellon-Berenger Debt Agreement (TIME, July 8). No other course was open to them. They had either to ratify the agreement or pay a separate War supplies account of 400 millions...
Satisfied that Guy Fawkes was not in the cellar, Parliament proceeded to open. For the first time since 1900, the Sovereign did not appear...
...lingering hope of a light-wine-and-beer modification of the law which inspired George Ehret to keep his brewery open nearly Ten Years After. The same hope inspired his sons after his death in 1927. Near-beer, as such, would not have interested old George Ehret. From 1866 to 1920 he made real beer-drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition...
Pennsylvania Open Championship-won by Ed Dudley, U. S. Ryder Cupman; at Philadelphia...