Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the Senators wended out of their chamber tingling all over with virtue and generosity. To their own and many another person's great surprise they had passed a Flood Control bill; passed it so suddenly that they had had to make their speeches on it after voting instead of before; passed it 70 to 0, moreover, so that only a "love feast" attended the event, without partisanship...
...Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and others were sponsors of the rewards. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Michael Hughes reported: "It is almost impossible to trace bombers. There are 50 places in the city where dynamite can be purchased just as a person buys a package of cigarets...
When large purchases of the common stock of Harry F. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. were made in Manhattan, last week, by an undetected buyer this person was rumored to be Motor Man Ford. Before the Majestic sailed, however, Mr. Ford declared unequivocally, "I do not plan to purchase any new industries or purchase any more motor car companies in the near future. My hands are pretty full...
...going to the daisy-doser in the amusement park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern newspaper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. . . . We cannot possibly attend all the murders, fires, earthquakes, unsuccessful trans-atlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modern newspaper does this for us and thus saves our consciousness from 'innocuous desuetude...
...latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum of scribblings and erasures, the single typewritten manuscript in which her works make their initial and dangerously modest appearance. A person as mercurial and far more alive than those whose faces peer in startled beauty from the blossomed branches of her writing, Author Wylie lives in Manhattan, venturing but seldom to go among the troops of esthetes who long to do her honor. Her library is stocked with the works of Shelley...