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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge, George W. English, took residence in East St. Louis with his wife, his son. There he became intimate with one Charles B. Thomas, who had been a local judge. The eastern Illinois district was not entirely civilized? the Herrin massacres soon happened. Rough ways, rough words were not unknown. Money was made, lost, quickly, loosely. Judge English became careless. He got into the habit of assigning lucrative bankruptcy cases to his good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a?. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed...
...book takes the form of a long letter to Cartoonist Clarence Day Jr., in which Mr. Ward exposes a great many exhibitions of thobbing, past and present: Upton Sinclair and his reforming ilk; all Moral Laws and Categorical Imperatives, since they involve a thing called "conscience" unknown to pure science; all sociological dialectics; all philosophical disquisitions and systems., even the most materialistic, since they all promise but never perform modifications of the genus Homo; all religions, calling as they do for the exercise of powers unknown to physics, mathematics and biology; all psychology?even behaviorism, from which the "psyche...
...much at home. The old West now gone, the West of the Mississippi with its great side-wheelers and niggers and roustabouts and plenitude of suckers has produced its own school of chroniclers. By the works of its sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings or bluff a bobtailed flush...
...another remarkable work on international politics. The Great War produced, of course, an enormous literature. During the past years several hundred books have been published dealing with the economic, moral, political and cultural consequences of the war and searching out the way on which humanity is moving toward an unknown fate. The subject of Mr. Bakeless' book is not at all new; but his conception and methods are excellent and distinguish this book from many other recently published works on such topics...
...Crimson infield is pretty much of an unknown quantity. Lord has received the call ahead of Tobin, University first-sacker last spring, but the Freshman star of a year ago will have to continue his heavy hitting if he is permanently to displace the veteran of last year's nine...