Word: ce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not go to Worcester without causing a civic demonstration. Fully one-quarter of Worcester's total population (197,600) is foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel's chief host, but Assumption College under the Massachusetts laws can only give a B. A. degree. An ambassador should certainly be honored with not less than an LL.D. So Clark...
...contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis. One peculiarity, however, has made it famous and has caused its founder, Frank N. D. Buchman, Muhlenburg graduate and Lutheran minister, to be called ugly names. At Buchman "houseparties" (gatherings devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming...
...CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS-Duncan Aikman-Henry Holt ($3). Ladies a la carte make up this racy repast served on a cloth flamboyantly patterned with genuine early day Westernism. Calamity Jane forms the pièce de resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling...
Father Projuarez crumpled down. A police sergeant, drawing his revolver, went over and pressed it against the prostrate man's temple. Pulling the trigger, he administered the official coupe de gráce...
...when he should have thrown to second, and Rhyne also made a throw to the plate which failed to put out a runner coming in from third base. After these various misadventures, the Pittsburgh pitcher weakened and the New York club, by hard hitting, ran up their big score. CE The Pirates saved the most damaging error for their last hopeless stand. With three games already lost, they rallied to save themselves from the humiliation of four successive defeats and came into the ninth inning with the score tied at 3 to 3. This despite another home-run by Hitter...