Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...
Charter members of the W. O. N. P. R. included: Mrs Pierre Samuel du Pont (Delaware), Mrs. Ralph Martin Shaw (Illinois), Mrs. Meredith Nicholson (Indiana), Mrs. Lothrop Ames (Massachusetts), Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness (New York), Miss Agnes Repplier (Pennsylvania), Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons (Rhode Island), Mrs. George Orvis (Vermont). Like Mrs. Sabin, Mrs. Orvis had left the Republican National Committee to be free to fight Prohibition...
Speaking for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, characterized the W. O. N. P. R. with this sneer: "A little group of wine-drinking society women who are uncomfortable under Prohibition...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...
...ring and wrist watch belonging to one of the robbed houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls and amuse himself in his spare time...