Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace waived a warrant, issued in 1925, for the arrest of Herbert Clark Hoover. Charge: motoring with glaring headlights. ¶In West Branch, Iowa, a Mrs. Addie Clark showed a newsgatherer a scrawled schoolday note in her album: "To Addie: "Let your days be days of peas, "Slip along as slick as greese...
...year of grace 1928, the U. S. continues to get along with a Congress and an Electoral College modeled as of the year 1910. Every ten years the census is taken and every ten years the people's Representatives in the House are supposed to be allocated afresh, to reflect growth and shift of populations in the 435 Congressional districts. But Reapportionment with the 1920 census as a basis has been consistently blocked by Congressmen whose States had either no seat to gain or a seat or two to lose if the Constitution were obeyed...
...Along that riverbank a thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files. . . . Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! Boom, steal the pigmies. . . . Boom, kill the white men. . . . From the mouth of the Congo To the Mountains of the Moon...
...Then along came the apparel merchants and an architect named Walter W. Ahl-schlager, 41, who had created Roxy's cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space...
...celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert, Vienna held last week its Saengerfest, the tenth Congress of German Singing Societies to which no less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...