Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mazatlan U. S. Vice Consul J. Winsor Ives made urgent repre- sentations to the Governor of Nayarit and the military authorities of the State asking speedy punishment of the bandit criminals. He also wired Teacher Anderson's relatives informing them of her serious con- dition and subsequent death. Then he reported the outrage to Wash- ington...
...them wonder what tiny, bright pictures of the past are in their minds, what futile furious memories make their hungry hands so restless. Last week, near Toms River, N. J., someone found Cora Carpenter, a tired crone, wandering in a forest, talking to herself in a low, serious voice...
...received diplomas from Bellevue. The oldest nurse at Bellevue had been in the class of 1876. She, a crisp, erect old lady, eyed the book for the name of Cora Carpenter. As she rustled pages, turning her mind to a time when she, a little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly, "Cora Carpenter? I don't remember any Cora Carpenter, but there may have been a girl of that name in the class ahead of me." At last, Cora Carpenter was found, scribbled over the top of a loose page, among...
...President of the next government, is one of the great figures of the Dail, much as is "Tay Pay" O'Connor in the House of Commons. Able, quiet, indomitable, he is a seasoned parliamentarian. With hair almost white and grave, beetling brows, he presents a picture of the serious, handsome, ideal statesman. Many a time has he prevented a bill from being rushed through the Dail without discussion, when his young, inexperienced henchmen were unaware of what was happening, and thus put a spoke in President Cosgrave's governmental wheels. And if in the Dail respected...
...asked him what particular problem confronted Anglo-Jewry today. He answered: "Inter-marriage. This is a serious problem in English Jewry. The Jew here, perhaps more than any other country in the world, is accepted on his own merits. This is especially true among the better classes, where, unlike America, there is no social prejudice, and no social barriers of any sort as between Jews and non-Jews. "The solution lies in the strengthening of Jewish consciousness and of Jewish convictions. When you consider for how many years the wealthier Jews in this country have been living together with...