Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give the "Christian General" a square deal which I believe he has seldom had in American or Engilsh newspapers. You mention Mr. Gailey without stating that he is "Bob" Gailey, erstwhile famous athlete at Princeton University, who has been giving a noble altruistic service in China for ten or more years...
...When I was ten years old my mother took me to see the poor of the town of Salisbury, Md., for the first time. From then until I went to college she took me regularly on her visits to the homes of drunkards and sufferers. There were 12 saloons in Salisbury, and much poverty. When my mother organized the W. C. T. U. [in Salisbury] there were only two women. But it was a beginning, and they made the town dry. My mother never wore any jewelry except one pin, the gold-enameled pin of the white ribbon. When...
...Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters and last week, just before Bishop Cannon's Asheville conference, he said so in a letter addressed to the Atlanta Journal but meant for consumption by Bishop Cannon and friends. "Offering no criticism of others," Bishop...
Noting that no Southern politicians of any potency were at Asheville, observers were little impressed with the likelihood of the Anti-Smith conference's actually having an effect on the electoral vote of the ten states of the Solid South, which have never yet gone Republican and are never likely to so long as Negroes are allowed to vote and hold office by the Republicans. More important to watch for were repercussions along the doubtful Border...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...