Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil One, and then, touching off the combustibles with a live coal, literally blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
...deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...
Came a knock at the door of her suite. She opened it. "Are you going to marry him?" chorused the reporters, trigger-fingers quivering on their pencils. Miss Morrow laughed. "Hold that pose!" chorused the cameramen, shaking powder in their flashlight pans...
Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as part payment also...
Elected. Wallace Brett Donham, Dean of the School of Business Administration of Harvard University; to be a director of Royal Baking Powder Co., chairman of its finance committee. Dean Donham has other directorships (coal, gas, banks, travel agency...