Word: si
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved fin de siècle manner by tobacco and the hypodermic needle...
...convention and see a more high-hatted bunch, their nose in the air, half-educated demagogs, than these self-styled dental fraternity men, you will have to name it. Their conventions are so exclusive you are confronted with a sign, "For Psy Si Members Only." Dr. So-and-So will lecture on this and that, and further along for members of the Si Psy or whatever society that you come to. Get your ticket for members only...
Died. William Symes Andrews, SI, of Schenectady, N. Y.; electrical engineer, longtime chief assistant of Thomas Alva Edison, oldest employe of General Electric Co.; in Schenectady...
...fill two lesser jobs on Judge, Editor Shuttleworth sent queries to 82 college wits, contributors to the Cheer Leaders department. He got Si replies, and most of the collegians were willing to quit school at once if they were offered desks...
...sharp contrast, artistic as well as factual, is Julia Peterkin's cadenced history of a Negro woman who never left the plantation, and yet developed a mature philosophy, spangled with ancient superstition. Si May-e's story touches peaks of high comedy, drops to depths of black misery, and through it all glows the indomitable vitality of Si Maye herself...