Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier "Red" Robinson (his home is in Anderson, Ind.), who, when he found Illinois humming with talk about that week's triple murder, scrapped his prepared speech and got up another one overnight called "The Eleventh Commandment." The seven judges were his to all but one man when he declaimed, among other ringing sentences: "Do you blame our youth for turning to a criminal career when, in those formative years before character is made or habits fixed, they see handed down to them, from a modern Mt. Sinai...
...joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many another Who of Who's Who. Incidentally, he had won for Wabash her fourth national championship in seven years, her second in succession. "If," said Elocution Professor Brigance with pardonable pride, "if there be such a thing as a crown of American oratory, certainly there could be no disputant of Wabash's claim...
Dollars. On the Pacific littoral, that astute, thin-bearded Scotsman, Robert ("Robbie") Dollar, working these last few years through his able son, R. Stanley Dollar, has jibbed and tacked shipping so skillfully that transpacific commerce moves under his virtual control. Some 30 months ago he bought seven "President" steamers from the U. S. Shipping Board. The Board was glad to sell. At the same time the Dollars (as the Admiral-Oriental Line) were operating for the Board five other "President" boats from Seattle to Japan, China, the Philippines and return, and the competitive Pacific Mail Steamship Co. was operating five...
Franklin. As high on the seven seas as is Robert Dollar so high, perhaps even higher, on those seas is Mr. Franklin...
...practicing in Toledo. That town welcomed his vigor and independence, soon (1905) electing him mayor over four other candidates and re-electing him in three successive elections. Then he refused renomination and settled to pursue his literary work, began in 1902. In 1912, he added to his list of seven published stories and essays, The Fall Guy, an interpretation of U. S. life that was dramatized with large success only a couple of seasons ago. His ministry in Belgium began in 1913 and he was working on J. Hardin & Son (published 1923) when war broke out. Belgium...