Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that Jesse E. James, a Los Angeles attorney, is the son of the late notorious Jesse James (1847-82). Lawyer James has said: "Jesse James with his brother Frank and a group of other Confederate soldiers, refused to admit defeat when the war was over, and carried on a guerrilla warfare until they were pronounced outlaws by an edict of the Government and rewards were set upon their heads. With all that has been written about father no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused him of cowardice or of breaking his word...
...Associated Press?before ever he sold a novel; and that even now his literary technique is regarded by critics simply as superlative journalese. They fancied Sinclair Lewis could do as much with the aftermath of a brief city riot as most correspondents could do with a full-fledged civil war. They were right...
Hangars, houses and steeples cance." "quietly The dropped into Super-Reporter insignifigance "above the foam of thickening clouds ... in the boiling fog which lay between us and the civil war . . . through the strange sky, in sane with sunset," to Bratislava. There, "everything was mad." The Super-Reporter's workaday comrades miraculously procured auto dark." mobiles in "that madness in the dark...
That was complot, cried Judge Rutherford. The "regular" churches were seeking to destroy his sect. In 1918 they had him sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for obstructing the War draft. But the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, after he had spent eight months in jail, had ordered him released. The present exclusion from the air was another "frame-up." Mr. Aylesworth was in cahoots with the preachers...
...that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," have governed human affairs. Cosmos I is assumed to have begun with Adam and ended with the Flood, at 4128 B. C. Its duration was 1,656 years. Cosmos II is assumed to have begun with the Flood and ended with the War, at 1914. Its duration was 6,042 years. Cosmos III is assumed to have begun with the War and to end in 2874. This is the time of "Christ's invisible reign." The "Kingdom of God" will have filled the whole earth. His 144,000 true members...