Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States has at present only ten cruisers afloat, and would in effect be without a navy if war occurred within the next two years...
These appointments were made after a ten weeks competition...
...intermission will feature this year's festivity. Programs for the event are already in the mail, and the decorating is well under way. The platform for the orchestra is being put up, and the walls are being decorated with Southern smilax. Bert Lowe's 20 piece orchestra will play ten card dances between the start of the dance at 10 o'clock and the supper interval at 12.30 o'clock, each dance consisting of a five-minute fixed dance and two encores, each of two minutes' duration, during which cutting-in will be permitted. After supper until the close...
Notables nicely cast were Archduke Leopold of Austria as the Prussian; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, son of Singer Schumann-Heink, as a staff surgeon, and Miss Mann, conspicuous by the paucity of her history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of ten, she abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity...
...formal medical education at Rush Medical College (now University of Chicago Medical School) and practiced as an Army surgeon for a time. Later the Chicago & Alton R. R. employed him as official surgeon. That was in the period when the Women's Christian Temperance Union made Ten Nights in a Bar Room a gospel of propriety, when the late Carrie Nation and her harridans heaved hatchets through expensive back-bar mirrors and at good mahogany fixtures. On that temperance agitation Keeley rode. Dwight, Ill., became the "Mecca of Liberty," the "Drunkard's Divorce Court...