Word: tor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house, languid with fever, able to write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then his chattering teeth." Keats died...
...resoluted" on an unusually wide variety of topics. Its "Platform of American Industry, 1924" advocated freedom for individual initiative and a halt in governmental control of business; deplored "dishonesty in high places"; defended the Supreme Court; condemned unnecessary taxation; favored the compilation and distribution of current trade information; declared tor complete freedom in making and maintaining voluntary employment agreements, without respect to compulsory membership or nonmembership in any organization; urged fair treatment for the railways and continuance of the Transportation Act; stood for the admission of immigrants economically needed, subject to the highest selective tests; supported the World Court idea...
...electing its directors for the coming year the Associated Press paid a special compliment to its chief organizer and its first president, Vic tor Fremont Lawson. As a special honor he was reelected to the Directorate by acclamation. Mr. Lawson is publisher of The Chicago Daily News. On Christmas Day, 1875, he, with Melville E. Stone (now retired head of the Associated Press) and two others, set up the News with $5,000 capital. The others soon dropped out. Stone maintained his connection with the News until he took charge of the Associated Press. Lawson and Stone instituted a series...
Clarence C. Dill, junior U. S. Sen-tor from Washington: "I suggested a possible name for the continent which the Shenandoah is expected to explore on her projected trip to the North Pole. Said I: 'Let us call it Coolidgeland, because it is so cold and silent...
...bill providing tor the sale of a site on S Street, Washington, for $185,000 and the purchase of another for a new French Embassy at 15th and Euclid Streets for the same amount was introduced into the Chamber of Deputies. It was explained that the opportunity to make the exchange came "as a favor" from the owner (Mrs. John B. Henderson) of the new site, which is far more valuable than...