Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of passersby, stopping to crane their necks backward at Mr. Kelly, loitered a moment longer to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly...
...original Anti-Saloon leaguers held reunion at Oberlin. They are: Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, associate general superintendent of the League; Asariah D. Myroot, in 1893 and at present librarian of Oberlin College; J. T. Henderson, president of Oberlin College; Andrew C. Comings, bookseller; Rev. Henry Tenney of Webster Grove, Mo. They adopted resolutions giving thanks for the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, called upon the U. S. people to demand stricter enforcement of them, to resist any attempt at their repeal or nullification. This time their proceedings aroused few smiles or sneers...
...last night announced that J. R. Creel '27 had been awarded the first prize of $35 for his essay entitled "Education and Democracy", and that the second prize of $15 had been won by Austin Wright 2G for his essay Back Stage". The judges were Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, Langdon Warnor '03, and L. D. Peterkin...
Trial Judge Webster Thayer, cast by Sacco-Vanzetti adherents as the villain of the plot, said last week: "I have made my position clear enough. I did what I had to do. What more can I say? I can only maintain a judicial silence...
...Webster Thayer, trial judge in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, held under death sentence (TIME, Sept. 27, Nov. 1, April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...