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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idle figure of speech. The name "Bilbo," well-loved by collectors of people's-names-that-mean-something, is an antique word for "sword...
...summing up, the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, came near to sneering at the petty successes of the accused. Said he: "The word spy has been used time after time in this case. The word seems misapplied when used concerning either of you. A spy is very often a brave man who, for the sake of his country, encounters a very serious personal risk, but in these matters you have been doing nothing for your country...
Such blarney seemed innocuous but Commonwealth Official Cosgrave showed poor taste when he went on to praise one who notoriously slings verbal garbage at the commonwealth. Said Mr. Cosgrave: "I also want to say a word about that great and grossly libeled man, the Mayor of Chicago. If I were not a man of the world and experienced in politics I would have expected to meet a tough and a roughneck. Instead I was received and honored by a great big, kindly, genial, American, so bubbling over with plans for the betterment of his city that he talked about hardly...
...city's original name was fantastically Losantiville-L for Licking; os, the Latin word for "mouth"; anti, the Greek word for "against"; and ville, the French word for "city...
This week Winona will be given its second presentation, in Minneapolis. There last week plans were made to make it a major event. Mayor George E. Leach was to attend. Composer Bimboni, turned conductor, was working with his orchestra, when word arrived that the American Opera Society of Chicago, of which Edith Rockefeller McCormick is ardent honorary president, had voted him the David Bispham Memorial Medal for distinguished service in the furtherance of American music, that he would be awarded it this week at the Minneapolis performance...