Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today at 12 o'clock, a steam calliope will visit Harvard Square under the auspices of the Crusaders, a young men's national organization for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and for the return to the states of their rights of self-government...
...joke about Chicago's crime-tide has long been the prerogative of colyumists, cartoonists, comedians. Last week a high Federal official joined the game. Munching a lettuce sandwich, sipping milk, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock sat in his office and told Washington newshawks about his recent visit to Chicago. Perhaps in all seriousness, but with ludicrous effect, he said: "I saw nothing of the speakeasies that are reported to flourish [there]. Why, I even walked down some of the so-called 'bad streets' several nights. ... I saw no machine-guns on street corners, or anything like...
...conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring others from carrying loaded revolvers when pursuing their vocation of burglary." (London bobbies, pursuing their vocations, do not ordinarily carry firearms.) Gouty peers, ruffling through the London Evening Standard learned...
...plane, a Diesel-powered Bellanca, circled the field, dove, crashed, killed pilot and priests. A gift of the Marquette League of New York, which has spent $750,000 upon missions for Indians of the southwest U. S. and of Alaska, the Marquette was intended to enable Father Delon to visit in three weeks missions scattered over 500,000 sq. mi., a trip that formerly required a year's travel by dog team...
...worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over the humble man, in deference to deity, threw away what the Son of Heaven could not eat. When the Emperor departed next...