Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming performances of "Peter Called Prince", all in the evening, will be on Thursday, at Whitney Hall; on Friday, at the Pi Eta Theatre; Saturday, at Wellesley; Monday, January 19, at West Nevizon and Tuesday, at the Pi Eta Theatre...
...story of their going was this: The Senate of Rhode Island is composed of one man from each town in the state. Providence, with nearly 300,000 inhabitants, has one Senator. West Greenwich, with 367 inhabitants, has one Senator. The Republicans control most of the small towns. But the small towns are more numerous. At the election preceding the recent one, the Democrats gained a comparative victory. They gained 17 seats of the 39 in the Senate. They elected the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor...
Said he: "The Illustrated Daily News of Los Angeles and The Illustrated Daily Herald of San Francisco lead in daily circulations in the Far West...
...many years of experience in stock speculation, they believe that what goes up must come down, and have therefore been led to sell short many of the leading speculative stocks. But the market keeps on upward, steadily and remorselessly. The paradoxical result has been that many an amateur speculator west of the Alleghanies has, by continuing to buy stocks, serenely drubbed the professionals of the financial arena...
...Gradually the streets of Pasadena emptied as the rout and revel wound out to the Rose Bowl for the annual East-West football game. On a bench in the stadium, Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame stroked his jaw as he watched Leland Stanford, in the first few minutes of play, inexorably shoving his team toward its goal line. The Bowl was bedlam, for most of the 55,000 persons present wanted to see Coach Rockne's team shoveded right off the field. Rockne was not worried, merely pensive. He relinquished his jaw, called to him four young...