Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones ended up by having an escapade with Mistinguette, then went home to the flat where his wife, Mabel, and their five children were waiting. "But Mabel only opened one of her Sioux City eyes and said...
...merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis group is under the guidance of a Humanist pioneer, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich who, nominally Unitarian, began preaching Humanism 18 years ago and now has 2,000 followers. Humanists like Dietrich and Potter are the only preachers of whom...
...green eyeshade, Judge Charles Clark Bradley, 54, addressed his command to a rowdy crew of lowans who were shoving their way into his small court room at Le Mars (pop.: 4,788) one afternoon last week. Some were farmers in ragged overalls. Others looked like blackshirted hoodlums from nearby Sioux City. They kept their hats on, continued to smoke. Before the tall bachelor on the bench were cases involving a first test of the new state law to suspend farm mortgage foreclosures. One of the intruders arrogantly demanded to be heard. Judge Bradley silenced him. The crowd growled...
...youngest child in a family is usually the smartest, and the children of elderly parents are usually smarter than other neighborhood children, decided Dr. Richard Leos Jenkins, Chicago juvenile researcher after looking over records of 7,000 Sioux City, Iowa children. (Dr. Minnie L. Steckel gathered the records.) Havelock Ellis thinks that late generating parents do their offspring good. Dr. Jenkins, however, reasons that more money and experience in bringing up children enable such parents to take better care of late comers...
Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...