Word: smith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CHICAGO?The History of its Reputation?Henry Justin Smith & Lloyd Lewis ?Harcourt, Brace...
...Sullivan-Beer school. Such a news-history of Chicago, a city with a blood-red reputation hitched to a star, is a book bound to pall in its chaotic, undigested collection of facts en masse; yet it is big with significance for readers who like to generalize. Author Smith's own generalizations include the following...
...would be folly to deny that the Wets' have made considerable gain in the past few years. . . . The defeat of Governor Smith did nothing to allay the sentiment against Prohibition. Instead it produced what might be called an emotional hangover. . . . The candidacy of Governor Smith was beneficial to the cause of Prohibition. Before he became a candidate the prohibition and temperance organizations had been disintegrating...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked how he wrote "Up to Now," his serial auto-biography currently appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. Answered he: "I dictated it. . . . I'll tell you the secret of concentration. Just get in the front seat of a car. Light a good cigar and ride along looking at your feet. It's a great way to write articles...
National Colored (at Bordentown, N. J.) ?men's singles, Edgar G. Brown of Chicago; doubles, Eyre Saitch of Harlem. N. Y. & Sylvester Smith of Baltimore: women's singles, Ora Washington of Chicago...