Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...
...pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes funnier...
Richard Corbett, citizen of France, son of an English banker, stood in the iron-railed prisoner's dock at Draguignan in Southern France last week, facing a judge and a jury of hard-faced farmers. Hesitant witnesses told how the accused had learned that his elderly French mother was suffering from an incurable cancer, how he had taken care of her for months; then how, when doctors had given up all hope, he had cleaned his revolver, walked into his mother's bedroom, kissed her, shot her dead, then shot himself but not fatally...
...Feather-soft ashes, not hard lava buried Pompeii, preserved...
...these reports, the University mentor, decided to give the reserves a test under fire. They held their own creditably. Richards, at center, Myerson, at guard, and Ogden, end, turned in high grade defensive performances. Of the regulars, Devens gave a fine exhibition of all around play. His running was hard and sure, while his defensive work, especially in hurling back incipient crusades around end, was well-nigh perfect. The slippery and elusive running of Mays and Putnam brought down the praises of Cleo O'Donnell, Holy Cross coach...