Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many an amateur in the New York district conducted private displays for the benefit of the convention delegates last week. Notable among these was Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker of Brooklyn who first produced his Impossibilities and Miltiades III in 1918. At that time he astonished and mystified some of the...
Fred B. Smith of White Plains. N. Y.. layman, chairman of the National Citizens' Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, leader in lay religious organizations both national and international, was unanimously elected Moderator by the Congregationalists. Some time ago Moderator Smith retired from gainful occupation with Johns...
Last Autumn when Mrs. Peterkin announced a book called Scarlet Sister Mary, librarians throughout South Carolina ordered copies as a matter of course. They were a little taken aback to read the publisher's blurb that this was "the story of the harlot of Blue Brook Plantation.''...
When the Dial first was issued in Chicago, in 1880, it appeared fortnightly under the editorship of one Francis F. Browne. Its book reviews covered many pages, went into great detail concerning novels and their authors, even commenting on typographical errors. In 1918 it moved to Manhattan with Robert Morss...
Yet, gloomy though the situation appeared at the close of last week, the market opened this week not with a further decline but with a frenzied rally. Wild was the excitement in Chicago's wheat pit. Opening prices showed variations of five points at different parts of the floor...