Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their lines, he comes high. I venture to say, in fact, that if he is to preside over our destinies for another two years, the people of this State will come to realize that 'the Sidewalks of New York' is for them the most expensive tune ever written...
Cicero has written history under the Caponi régime. There was the day when the Duncan Sisters, famed baby-talk gurglers of musical comedy, put on a street fight with two Cicero policemen, and later sued the town for rough treatment. There was the story of a young, able newspaper editor who refused to leave town. So, members of the Caponi gang beat him up at a busy street corner, and kidnaped his brother for a few days. There was the killing of Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin last April, a crime that has not yet been...
...with wire wheels, in order to facilitate his tour of the country. Later the 'Baron' was, as every-one knows, discovered to be a fake (TIME, Sept. 6). He is now in Newcastle County (Del.) workhouse awaiting trial on the charge of passing worthless checks. I have written through a secretary to authorities in Wilmington, Del., inquiring as to just what I can do to get my Ford back. It is now in Denver driven from Albuquerqe, N. M., where the 'Baron' was arrested...
...Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen in their philosophical moments, if sufficiently steeped in journalese and colloquialisms, might have written these same little pills of advice. Hence, countless readers will grin sheepishly and mutter: "Golly, that woman sure knows LIFE...
...following biographies of the members of the Cambridge University debating team which is touring the eastern colleges this fall were forwarded direct from Cambridge. Written by intimate acquaintances of the debaters who are in an excellent position to know the interesting details which appear in the accounts, they show the Englishmen to be men of wide accomplishment in varied fields. These three operators, who will dispute with the University team on October 28 at Symphony Hall, are Mr. H.G.G. Herklots of Trinity College, and Mr. A.L. Hutchinson of Christ's College, and Mr. W.G. Fordham of Magdalene College. The appended...