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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three cornered fight in Pennsylvania, just as, in; Illinois,* with one Wet against two Drys. One way or another in these uncertain triangles, the Administration may well be afraid of losing one or more of its supporters...
...employe of the Pond's Extract Co. The Chicago Tribune published a full page in the current Pond's Extract series of testimonial-persuasions, the central figure of which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite of a "double strain" that now bears upon...
...term "hobby horse" is of great antiquity and uncertain origin. It has been used to denote: 1) The "Irish hobby," a breed of small horse trained to an easy gait. 2) The costume worn by a medieval actor to represent both man and horse, and consisting of a framework with a horse's head and tail casing the actor's hips. 3) An early form of bicycle or tricycle. 4) A prostitute. (Webster's New International Dictionary...
...afternoon is as uncertain with possible lectures as is the morning. Professor Wright is speaking on Moliere at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D, as a part of the series on Great Authors. Professor Jeanroy is lecturing at the same time in Emerson D in French on "Le Mystere de la Passion...
...requiring American consent for any advisory opinion relating to a matter in which we have or claim an interest. No other country has set such conditions, and our opinion would probably be unfavorable if any other country did set them. But for the United States, we seem so uncertain of our position in the world that we must advertise our timidity in this way. Fortunately the reservations may not cripple the Court and they will probably have little effect on American action...