Word: news
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, Jews are discriminated against in many a leading U. S. country club. Knowing this not to be the case at the famed South Shore club, TIME mentioned it as of incidental news-interest...
Sirs: You have been making a lot of printers' errors -the Greeks have the real lowdown on how to spell American names to produce the right pronunciation: ΦΟΖ ΜΟŤΒΙΤΟΝ ΝΙΟŤΣ -Fox Movietone News ΚΟΛΝΤΟŤÏΝ -The last name of Mr. Samuel Goldwyn ΜΠΙΛΛŤ ΝΤΟΒ -Billie Dove ΑΛ ΤΖΟΛΣΟΝ -Al Jolson...
...safety's sake, no advance news was given of the route that the King and Queen would take in their ride from Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds of pious, enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman...
...London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that the men will doubtless be matched again before one of them is picked to meet Schmeling or Sharkey...
...Watch and Ward, a long established citizens' vigilance committee, has been prominent in recent Cambridge news through its activity in connection with charges of selling obscene literature brought by the Society against James A. Delacey, manager of the Dunster House Bookshop of South Street, and his assistant, who are now appealing a conviction by the Cambridge District Court...