Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Miller J. Huggins, "mite manager" (1918-29) of the New York American League baseball team ("Yankees"); in Manhattan; of erysipelas...
...Anne Morrow Lindbergh unknowingly last week came into part of her heritage. Ambassador & Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow created a $1,000,000 trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down...
...American Society of Civil Engineers meets at Boston...
...braggadocio. But he should again succeed, for he still knows how to polish the fleshpots. Once his girlish regiment sprawls on a beach, clad for maximum suntan. When costumes are more voluminous, engaging apertures are cut in them. Entrancing is a lady who stands vastly denuded, symbolic of the American Indian, and looks remarkably like Helen Wills...
...local history the 17th century, which made the feudal land law of mediaeval England into a system which could go around the world in the 19th, and the time just after the Revolution when English Institutions and English legal doctrines were made over to conform to an ideal of American society by a criterion of applicability to American conditions...