Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio has turned from accounts of the pitcher wiping off the ball and the halfback knocking the dirt out of his cheeks long enough to allow a work from the other side. Station WTIC has opened its mouthpiece to Professor Odell Shepard who has much fault to find with the American idea of sport and with college sport in particular. Professor Shepard thinks the whole trouble lies in our lack of a spirit of play. Business men for instance he claims play golf merely to keep fit for more business. What is important to them is not the actual play...
...seldom we are called upon to record such an act of cruelty and low-lived blood thirstiness as was enacted by a party of students last Sunday afternoon. About 15 of them repaired to a retired spot in a field near Porter's Station; they brought with them two bags, each bag containing a cat and they were followed by a bulldog. A circle was formed, a cat was then let out and made to confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment...
...three little islands and dozens of little islets out in a tropic sea, where one's word is law and where the palm leaves wiggle in approbation,-such is the destiny of Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, onetime commandant of the Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station, onetime Governor of Samoa, who was last week appointed by President Coolidge to be "king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would...
...Several days after my accident, a speaker on the program of Radio Broadcast Station WHAP of Manhattan (anti-Catholic, anti-non-Christian Jew, and 'Auntie Most Everything') informed its select coterie of listeners-in of my misfortune and intimated that it was only the expected retribution for the number of 'questionable' productions of mine on Broadway (Lulu Belle, etc.). News of this will undoubtedly be a great aid to my rapid recovery...
...gasoline station in Trenton, N. J., one Edward Frommel, a man with a hickory leg, sat smoking. It was late at night. In a cigar box over Mr. Frommel's head lay a wad of dirty bills, a week's gas receipts. He was thinking of the money and hoping that his partner would come back soon, so that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with...