Word: rounde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clinton Norman Howard, Chairman of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement,* at a W. C. T. U. meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...
Shrewd Norfolk farmers in the east of England were reported last week to be bartering pails of milk for pints of water. Half round the world in Santiago de Cuba there were street fights and stabbings when the water-carts passed. Prolonged drought was parching many lands, but rural England and Cuba seemed to suffer most. Scientists recalled that, although man can go without food for two months and live, without water he shrivels and dies in from six days...
...Africa the current champion of Europe, a Negro, challenges all white men. Into the ring springs Otho, feeling himself a new "white hope." In the tenth round Otho remembers his family motto "Up, Belleme! ... I Saye and I Doe," gets up from the floor, knocks the Negro out, thus proving the naive hypothesis that "though an English gentleman's strength and insensibility might be inferior to those of a Negro, his spirit might be superior. . . . Mind triumphant over matter." Be-ing champion of Europe makes Otho friends again with Margaret...
After the Berlin matches, attention centered on the challenge round, the Strong U. S. v. Strong France in Paris...
...last week an affable little man with round rosy cheeks and thin grey hair entered for the first time an unpretentious office in a temporary building on Washing ton's Mall and there seated himself in one of the most thankless swivel chairs in the Government. The little man was Frank Xavier Alexander Eble, called "Alphabet" by his friend because of his four initials. The chair was that of the Commissioner of Customs to which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made...