Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed out his wife. Lawyer Stimson and his wife, who was Mabel of the famed New Haven, Conn., sisters White, had to admire their sister's courage...
Last week, while her distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs. Rogers' present errand was most peaceable. She went to present to a meeting of the National Woman's Party a suggestion for a convention of international law to eliminate discrimination against women in matters of nationality...
...White House in peaceful mood went a delegation led by Mrs. Stephen Pell of New York to ask President Hoover's assistance in their crusade...
...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...
...Defendant McManus, free on light bail while court was recessed, went to a Thanksgiving Day football game in Manhattan. Robbers entered his Riverside Drive apartment, stole $8,000 worth of jewelry and clothing...