Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosing an article, from the July 23, 1929 issue of the Ashland Independent which we feel will be of special interest to your readers. Certainly the wearing of white pants by workers around a steel mill is an innovation...
...Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying Service instead of to Roosevelt Flying Corp., the unintentional depredations of whose flyers induced the Old Westbury players to start building a 103-ft. barrier around their grounds (TIME, July...
...mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows" and "Idlewild,'' though at a place called Lawton's Springs there is sometimes heard...
While the "49ers" were going around his plant, Inventor Edison chewed a cigar and consented to answer a questionnaire that newsmen had presented to him. To the question, "What do you think of the future of the talkies?" his answer was emphatic: "Without great improvements people will tire of them. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in silent pictures." Then, to another query, he gave ambition, imagination, and the will to work as the key to success...
...lifted him to their shoulders, Winner Huston was the center of attention. It was learned that he was interested in marine biology, did not smoke, had never been a Boy Scout. When the boys boarded the Mayor's yacht Macom for a tour of Manhattan, reporters surged around Winner Huston, confident of a "chatty" interview that would tickle their public. They were disappointed and commented on the Lindberghian attitude he maintained toward them. Asked his answer to one part of the test he calmly said, "You may not ask me that question...