Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought to know, for I've been in and out of both for a good many years. Life in a convent isn't so wild and hilarious, of course, as in a night club, which must be about the saddest spot on earth. But I never yet saw a nun who wore a long face except one, and she had the cramps. Too much Christmas candy, and the dear old lady dissipated. I visited a convent recently, and I came away with a bright memory of a "lot of girls." But they are mighty aged girls...
Pleased with the Mills plan, pleased with additional thousands of suggestions brought forward by his contest, Mr. Durant sent his check to Major Mills with a letter of congratulation. Federal prohibition authorities, however, saw in the Mills plan no millennium. James M. Doran, chief U. S. prohibiter, disagreed with the major premise concerning diverted alcohol as the source of "98%" of bootleggers' supplies. He said that the chief source of illegal liquor is the distillation of corn sugar. He added that measures advocated by Major Mills are now "routine practices" in the Prohibition Bureau, described the Mills plan...
South Dakota. A cautious wheatlander, Governor William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, was elected. He first saw the Atlantic ocean in 1927, observed: "It certainly looks very...
...Circus Kid. When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...
...Public Health Service saw no cause for panicky fears. In 1918 about 450,000 persons died of influenza. Last week 43 out of 78 principal cities reported the comparatively small death total of 379. Everywhere the disease was mild, not virulent. The mortality rate for influenza is low. Some specialists maintain that death never occurs unless there are complications. The Public Health Service urged sleep, food, exercise, avoidance of crowds...