Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...
...like having the horizon move into your front yard. Imagine being a bricklayer, an electrician, a clerk in a music store, an instructor of long distance telephone operators or a tire repair man, and being unexpectedly confronted, in person, with two men whose names have been appearing in newspaper headlines for four years. Connected with their names?Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall?was something about oil, oil in Wyoming, oil belonging to the U. S. Navy. Millions of dollars had been involved. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall were accused of doing something wrong about a lease, some liberty...
Imagine being seated in the jury box of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons presiding, and quizzed by immensely professional lawyers to see if you were a fit person to decide the guilt or innocence of the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair...
...small grey man, with eyes as grey as new wrought awls, backed against a handrail of the Italian liner Conte Rosso when she dropped anchor at quarantine in New York Harbor last week* and permitted reporters to tease noncommittal smiles from him. "Mr. Woods," they chirruped, "who was the person who provided $2,500,000 for the American School for Classical Studies at Athens to excavate the ancient public market place of Athens...
...already given a rather large number of his books, annotated of written by the poet, to the library, writing at about the same time, "I much fear you will be disappointed in the quality of the Coleridge items, but shall be a very happy person indeed were any of this material to prove of the smallest help to Professor Lowes in his forthcoming book." This "forth-coming book" was the recently published Road to Xanadu. And indeed, in writing it, Professor Lowes made great use of the books received from Norton Perkins...