Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They laid Frank Bartlette Willis to rest in Delaware, Ohio, the town he had set out to make as famed as Marion. Congressmen and captains of industry attended the funeral. A Willis memorial fund was begun. Messages of condolence continued pouring in on Mrs. Willis, especially long ones from her dead husband's colleagues in the Senate. No message moved her more than a Senate message which came, not from a Senator, but from Richard L. ("Deacon") Riedel, a religiously-inclined boy commonly recognized in the Senate wing of the Capitol as Senator Willis' favorite Senate page...
...Senators hemmed, hawed and set to work to see what they could do with Mr. Mellon's suggestions. Soon the Democrats announced that they would continue fighting for a tax reduction of $300,000,000 at least. Senator Smoot replied for the Conservative Republicans that $187,000,000 was about the right figure...
...usual, the sun did not set on the British Empire, last week; but during a most unusual period of 36 hours the sun never rose except to beam upon a land where Death stood waiting for some British airmen...
...example set by Jesus Christ was followed, last week, by their Most Catholic Majesties, King Alfonso and Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain...
After a thoroughly thrilling set-to with the Knights Templars, who are painted as Black-Mass men and whose assassins invariably go disguised as leprous beggars, O'Neill and Kothra hump themselves furiously on dromedary-back to the marge of the Lake of Galilee. The bloodhounds are coming! Quick, quick! Will he embrace Islam to save them both? Yes, yes! So, discreetly, they strip off their clothes and swim together out of the last chapter, presumably to board a Bedouin fishing smack, get back to Damascus and live in flower-fragrant happiness ever after...