Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three and one-half years ago, 1,530,000 men and women voted for a middle-aged widow named Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp and elected her as New York State's first female Secretary of State. Last week, twelve New Yorkers, sitting on a jury, voted to send Mrs. Knapp to jail for grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand...
...joke in England is a joy forever. Last week one Kenneth G. Frazer, F. R. C. S.,* of Edinburgh, a medical missionary to the Southern Sudan, wrote a letter to the London Times, telling people what to do with razor blades. Said he: "Send them to me. . . . I never could get enough of them. . . . For years I have been collecting used blades to present to my woolly friends in Southern Sudan who are experts at shaving each other's heads with them. . . . I will take them back with me in the autumn...
...wife's criticisms with dismay. For himself, he told the court, he loved his wife and desired her return. To this horrid conundrum, Judge Sabath had a neat answer. He gave Mrs. Johnson an injunction to prevent Mr. Johnson from annoying her; to Mr. Johnson he gave permission to send his wife all the candy and flowers he could afford to buy. Next month, if this arrangement does not result in reconciliation, Mrs. Johnson will bring her suit to court...
...Reggio enter the staircase at the bottom; then they ascended to the top by elevator and waited for her to come out. This, with flushed face and hoarse breathing, she did 13 minutes and four seconds later, crying out that she had won $3,000 with which to send her son to college...
...Come, gentlemen, do the handsome thing! Elect Mr. Slocum to the society, and send him the biggest golden key that locksmiths can make...