Word: yers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman menace.'" In the Atlantic Monthly, snowy-haired, red-cheeked Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and self-styled Anglo-Catholic posed "honest and pertinent" questions in "An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith." Retired Lawyer Marshall was once a partner of famed Law yer Choate; now he makes a hobby of Church History and Canon Law. In Albany, Governor Smith read the questions, promised to make a fair and complete answer. The essential conflict that Governor Smith faces is : The Roman Catholic Church maintains that in a direct conflict between the laws of Church and State...
Meanwhile, last week, able law, yer Henry Lewis Stimson wrote to Mr. Guthrie that he could convince him of the truth of Mr. Taft's onetime statement by a ten-minute trip through the Criminal Courts, Building in Manhattan...
Lily Sue. "Maw, if yer never prayed before, pray now, while I ride to save 'Duke' from the drunken lynchers." Clip-clop, clip- clop-the heroine's off-stage horse arrives in time for a happy ending. The popularity of the cowboy thriller is revived by Willard Mack, dean of melodramatists. Hokum it is, and oldfashioned, but, none the less, it keeps the onlooker clutching, crinkling his program throughout. Beth Merrill, who looks like Jeanne Eagels, plays the gawky pride of the prairies, rolls out her pointed conversation with a pleasant, if not authentic, Western drawl...
...What should we say of a man who would undertake to make Shakespeare acceptable to the masses by rewriting him in the language of a New York east-sider. For 'To be, or not to be: that is the question,' let us say 'Yer for it or yer...
...Sound advice, from a certain diminutive Carnoustie man who teaches golf near Chicago, to persons going to golf at Troon, is this: "Gae oot on the fi-rrst nine o' Troon, an' gae in on the second nine o' Pr-restwuk. Hae yer lonch, an' gae oot on the fir-rst nine o' Pr-restwuk, comin' in on the last nine o' Troon. Aye, an' ye'll pay only one gr-reen...