Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World War is not yet ended. . . . I hope a new German Army will carry on the old Prussian spirit and virtue. I pray to witness the beginning of the Fatherland's resurrection...
More far-sighted and cogent to those publishers who regard the Canadian industry as a monopoly, was the proposal of onetime Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of the Omaha World-Herald. Said he: "Whatever the directors do of a temporary nature ought to be supplemented by some action towards permanent relief, such as developing a new supply of newsprint for the western part of the United States, possibly from Alaskan sources or a supply from European sources...
Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
Pierre Etchebaster, kinetic Basque, world's champion court tennis racqueteer, arrived in Manhattan from France to be an instructor at the Racquet and Tennis Club, to play exhibition matches, defend his title if an adequate opponent be found...
Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part...