Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pheasants and wild turkeys slain last week by President Coolidge at Sapeloe (see page 9) were a luxurious but not misleading sample of what the Southeast offers to gunners. Almost anywhere from Virginia to mid-Florida, quail abound. Wild-fowling in the Carolinas-duck, geese, brant-is a sport of moderate temperatures, unlike the cold-blown shooting of northern rivers and bays. When Mr. Hoover visits Mr. Penney at Belle Isle shortly, accounts of Southeastern fishing will doubtless go forth, though the tarpon, greatest of Southeastern game-fish, is caught off Florida's west coast...
With splendrous pomp and a majesty almost Byzantine, the common peasants who have recently arisen to dominate the Rumanian Government (TIME, Nov. 19) convoked a newly elected parliament, last week, and proceeded briskly to the business of the Realm...
...roll to top-notch college athletes who have brought their reputations to professional sport, particularly to boxing and baseball, is large, and the list of failures among these "college guys" almost as extensive. Almost universally, these failures have been hastened by unpopularity, and generally the attitude of the customers which, after all, makes or break a professional sportsman, has been ascribed to prejudice against the college man as such...
...Roof Garden with cabaret and night club effects, the spectators sitting at tables. After the concert the Gold Coast Orchestra played for dancing, but most of the members adjourned to the large debutante ball at the Hotel Sinton which lasted until 6 o'clock. The only incident of anyone almost getting left occurred here when the Indianapolis-bound train was stopped as it was leaving the station to take on several late arrivals...
...costume factory, she sings for the other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing and acting under Archie Mayo's directing make a trite story new and interesting, and give Warner Brothers a hit almost as potent as The Singing Fool...