Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...
...best reasons why musical comedy has been so unusually successful lately is that its composers are beginning to realize that they must write pieces that people can sing and play themselves," she continued. "The production must have catching numbers that are easily remembered, that people can him and carry along in their heads with out effort." Here she illustrated her point by humming a familiar part of "Sometimes I'm Happy," keeping time with the motions of her curling-iron...
Concerning the examination. The examination followed along the lines of the majority of Harvard examinations. There was one question based entirely on the lectures. Two questions were on the reading alone. The remaining two questions were discussion of reading, which discussion offered ample opportunity for personal opinion, and it such opinion were lacking, it could have been supplied by the lectures. No minute detail was required. What examination could be more fair...
AMBITION - Arthur Train - Scribner's ($2.50). Simon Kent gets along in the world. Why? 1) He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an asset to a law firm that handles shady cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells...
...touring car, containing W. L. Shaney, his wife Esther, and fouryear old daughter Alleen, running eastward along Memorial Drive, at 1.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suddenly, with no apparent cause, plunged into eight feet of water in the Charles River just west of Anderson Bridge. Only the top of the car was left in sight...