Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost solid backing for a conference to determine the capacity of Germany to pay-a suggestion emanating from U. S. Secretary of State Hughes, now sponsored by the British Government and endorsed by the Pope. As most countries are more or less vitally affected by the prolonged Ruhr row and the concomitant sterility in industry and commerce, it is only natural that they should favor any move calculated to bring the whole business to a speedy end. The Pope has not been idle. The failure of his letter of a week ago to Cardinal Gasparri was no deterrent...
Robert C. Benchley, literary buffoon of the brightest motley, is deserting the third row, aisle (critic's seat) for the opposite side of the footlights. It became public property last week that Life's theatrical commentator has accepted an engagement with the forthcoming Music Box Revue...
Customs officials found that she had been employed as a?rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...
Herbert S. Hadley was born 51 years ago in Olathe, Kansas. Both grandfathers were ministers. Northwestern University (near Chicago) educated him. He began the practice of law in Kansas City, Mo., where, later, as prosecuting attorney, he sent 220 people to felon's row in two years (a record). In his early thirties he became a national figure by reason of his assaults on oil, railroad, lumber and harvester trusts, and on St. Louis gamblers. Then, Governor of Missouri...
...Waste Land?Mrs. Porter full of soda-water ? jug-jug-tereu ? are they the greatest lines in modern poetry f?the row about The Waste Land?the row about the row about The Waste Land?One of Ours? " ? France gave her to us, they murmured,' as they passed the statue of Liberty"?whee!?books about sex? Is there a literacy Court of Star Chamber that meets at the Algonquin ? ? Mr. . Conrad's modesty ? Housman's Last Poems?an antique bitterness?laconic magnificence?the Clean Books' Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder...