Word: suede
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For 25 years Chicago has longed for a ditch between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi so that she may become a "seaport." Other cities on the Great Lakes have blocked Chicago-sued her, brought injunctions, vilified her-maintaining that to fill such a ditch to a navigable depth would lower...
Echoes. Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama read the decision of the Fall-Doheny jurors. His white waistcoat swelled with indignation; he hastened to tell his colleagues about it. When they saw him rise from his seat in the back row of the Senate, they knew he would discourse for...
Edward of Wales: "Mrs. Keld Fenwick (once lurid U. S. actress 'Peggy Marsh'),† the Jewish Belgian billionaire Capt. Alfred Lowenstein and myself hunted with a party last week in my favorite haunt, the Melton Mowbray district. Suddenly Captain Lowenstein's horse bolted, throwing him. Peggy Marsh...
Sued for Divorce. Francis Burton Harrison, 53, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines; by Mrs. Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison, 25, his third wife, whom he married (1919) on the day of his divorce from his second wife; in Paris.
General Umberto Nobile, polar dirigible engineer: "An audience in Davenport, Iowa, demanded money back after hearing me lecture last week, declaring my Italian accent made my English unintelligible. Sued for $1,800, my promoters withheld from me $800."