Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill., rang one evening. Mayor Adams went to the door, opened it, and was shot dead by two young men. The bullets were poisoned, to make doubly sure that the wounds would be fatal...
...Where-to-go-this-summer remained unfinished business at the White House. From a letter President Coolidge lately wrote, Vermonters were persuaded he will be among them during at least part of his vacation. From another letter, North Carolinians were sure that the President appreciated his invitation to a mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain, near Asheville. Georgians talked of offering an island estate off their coast. Senators McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee called and offered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood...
Concerning crime, the fat Mayor said, as he relaxed in bedroom slippers and short-sleeved, open-necked sport shirt in his hotel suite: "Sure, we have crime here. We always will have crime. Chicago is just like any other big city. You can get a man's arm broken for so much, a leg for so much, or beaten up for so much. Just like New York or any other big city-excepting we print our crime here and they...
...Committee and the Deputation Committee have been, as examination of the report shows, particularly active. Changes in the scope of the latter committee's endeavors have subdued the emphasis formerly placed on Harvard delegations to churches, and given more attention to the preparatory school visits. Such a change is sure to react more directly to the benefit of the college itself...
...fatal fascination had the effect of arsenic upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon to act the part of Bruce King, just one of those men whom women cannot forget. The women, to be sure, are only two; Mrs. Crane and the temptress who has stolen her husband. Since wily Mrs. Crane has promised to give Mr. Crane his freedom in case he can find her a fitting successor to himself and since the appealing and wealthy Mr. King has been introduced with this...