Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor spread wildfirewise through Rumania last week that King Ferdinand lay dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
...town, famed for its iron and carbonic waters. Adolphus Busch had money, stupendous amounts to the minds of his castle servants and the country folk. His breweries at St. Louis, Vereinigten Staaten, were making. 1,599,459 barrels of good beer every year. His maroon-painted trucks with the spread-eagle trademark rumbled through every large U. S. city delivering cases of beer to barrooms, clubs and homes. He was wealthy. It was Kolossal, his casual hiring of entire hotels to ac commodate his guests for a season...
...peculiar situation; its interest is pretty largely restricted to the eastern states--at least as far as collegiate participation. As yet the great middle western universities have shown small regard for the game--in some it is almost wholly unknown. The probabilities are, however, that the movement will spread just as football has spread. The benefits of the game as a means of keeping in form for summer tennis are open to discussion but the more essential requirement of partaking in some winter exercise which will not grow too monotonous, assures the future of squash. On account of fulfilling this...
...article, "The Habit of Going to the Devil", indicates, this is not the first era in which moralists make a good living by denouncing the trend of the times. Mr. Hulbert lists quotations from American periodicals of about a century ago, all bemoaning the younger, generation, the spread of lawlessness, immorality, irreligion--in fact the conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state of affairs: "And what of our youth? Today where one child hails with delight the Sabbath as the day for Bible study, one hundred young immortals are growing...
...collars while on the island. For infraction the offending member gets a ducking. "Wouldn't it be fine if New England could have a dinner with its collars, and, neckties, off..?" *The textile groups with boots and shoes constitute 31% of New England industry. The balance is spread over 200 classifications, all highly localized. Thus Maine and Massachusetts make 75% of New England paper and wood pulp. Rhode Island and Massachusetts make 99% of the jewelry...