Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This project has been going forward for some time, but last week Navy Department officials announced that it would first be tried out on . U. S. merchant ships now plying between Manhattan and San Francisco. The idea, in essence, is to create on each merchant ship a body of officers trained as a unit in naval technique and capable of being instantly transferred to command a fighting ship...
...When William Randolph Hearst was very young," once wrote Arthur Brisbane, "when he was running the San Francisco Examiner after leaving Harvard, he complained to his father, U. S. Senator George Hearst, that so many men were fools. Father Hearst replied: 'That's true, Willie. But let us not be too hard on fools. If there were not so many of them life would be less easy for you, for me and for some others...
...quelled, with only a few score civilians shot down by government troops, some of the Post's readers supposed that this meant the super-reporting of Novelist Lewis would not come off. Others were more hopeful, remembering that Mr. Lewis had been a reporter?in New Haven, Conn., in San Francisco, and hither and yon for the Associated Press?before ever he sold a novel; and that even now his literary technique is regarded by critics simply as superlative journalese. They fancied Sinclair Lewis could do as much with the aftermath of a brief city riot as most correspondents could...
Died. U. S. Congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker, 40, Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned. He was born in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been in Congress since 1925. Mr. Crumpacker had been an Army captain in the World...
...steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will never accept him as long as he associates with "that infamous Mrs. Wall." In the end he overcomes the society influenza and marries the woman, who certainly did right by him. Although film followers will recall that Blanche Sweet belongs to an early cinema epoch, she shows...