Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph J. Eller and two assistants descended from a taxicab at the Post Graduate Hospital. A few minutes later they discovered that a small black satchel containing 500 milligrams ($30,000 worth) of radium had been left in the cab, each man having thought that another had it. Word was sent to all the newspapers warning the finder to ware burning himself. Next morning a restaurateur a few blocks from the hospital reported discovering the bag under a table in his restaurant. Its intervening experiences were unknown...
...Klux Klan. But not one of the 40,000 people who were watching him, not Vice President Curtis, who once rode horses, nor Mrs. Gann, who had a good seat, nor Maryland's Governor Ritchie, nor Will Rogers, whose pocket was picked of four mutuel tickets, thought of the Klan as they watched what Dr. Freeland was about. They were all interested in seeing what horse would win the famed Preakness horse-race. Dr. Freeland, who is a big fast three-year-old horse out of Toddle by Light Brigade, humped his shoulders and won the race...
...common stockholders asked to turn in five shares for one, but holders of preferred were requested to surrender their holdings, on a share-for-share basis, for new preferred plus a $20 cash payment. The cash payment would be in settlement of large accrued and unpaid dividends. President Franklin thought that only some such plan could prevent dissolution and reorganization...
...Paul's alumni were surprised if not shocked to hear the news. To be Pennsylvania's bishop coadjutor is a great thing, they thought, but does it compare with being headmaster of St. Paul's? So large does Dr. Drury loom in the minds of St. Paul's men that to them it seemed almost presumptuous of the Pennsylvania Episcopalians to offer him the Number Two position in their State. Even more disquieting was this thought: suppose Dr. Drury should feel that his duty lies in Pennsylvania! What then would become of St.Paul...
...found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified. He returned at last to the scene of his crime. Her presence confronted him, mocked him, awakened him to a course he had not thought of taking?to give himself...