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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concluded his impressive argument with these exact words: 'If your honors shall find a way to uphold the validity of this amendment, the Government of the United States as we have known it will have ceased to exist. Your honors will have found a legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution, and untrammeled by any of its limitations...
...York Tribune. In 1924, the Bookman said of him: "As a human being, he possesses not even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited him with an uncanny flair for perceiving genius in unknown writers. "No one else in the world could have anticipated Jurgen by reading The Cream of the Jest." His wife, however, had this to say: "Well, he snores, grinds his teeth and moans in his sleep; but otherwise he is perfect." Mr. Rascoe likes to hear young writers' troubles, is enthusiastic, sociable...
George Voight, 30, of Washington, D. C., was tasting deeply the last blood of winter, the first blood of spring, at Pinehurst, N. C. In the qualifying round of the annual North and South Amateur tournament, Voight achieved the kind of scoring ordinarily unknown outside of dreams. The first 18 holes he made in 67, the second in 68, a total just one stroke above Bobby Jones's record of 134, at Sunningdale, Eng., last summer...
...this evening. No previous experience is necessary. Competitors will be asked to spend an afternoon each week at the airport for the next three weeks. They will be expected to do a little mechanical work. The chief aim of the competition, however, is to give men who may be unknown to the club members an opportunity to demonstrate their interest in the activities of the club. At the end of the three weeks a number of men will be elected to membership with attendant privileges in the use of the club's facilities for flight...
...display this week in the Widener Memorial Room are many works of William Blake. Among these are three original watercolor drawings: "America, a Prophesy", drawn by him, and for some unknown reason never published; Death's Door", and "The Union of the Soul and Body...