Word: war
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should bring into disrepute this younger man's rather crude religious...
TAMMANY HALL-M. R. Werner-Doubleday-Doran ($5). A biographer of eccentricians (Barnum, Brigham Young), Freedom, suffrage, peace. Mr. Werner reproduces all the war-paint and peacetime paint, all the cardinal sins and probable virtues of a famed phenomenon, in a manner calculated to sell books...
...generations of it in one family are noteworthy. A white-haired lady who died suddenly last week at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., aged 83, was the only daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, the Boston man by whose eloquence and persistence the Abolition movement attained national proportions before the Civil War. Today her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, is editor of the Nation, liberal weekly...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Tacci, 64, archbishop of Nicaea, papal nuncio in Belgium during the World War; in Rome. In February 1922, erroneous reports from Rome told that Cardinal Tacci had been made pope by the Conclave of Cardinals...
...Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity, admirable restraint, the Morning Post permitted itself to observe: "We dislike the current journalistic practice of boring and bewildering readers with intimate details of the business and management of newspapers." But it overcame its dislike manfully, brought itself to quote its own sales figures: August...