Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell mothers how to raise babies or crops, congratulate families on a new birth -all to let it be known that soon is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their party. Thirty-four Senators in 32 states (27 seats now Republican) in the autumn Senatorial contest will determine how the country feels in a general way over the issues last week outlined by party "Spokesmen" Lawrence C. Phipps, chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee, and William A. Oldfield, chairman of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee...
...have: the Golden Gate Park Aquarium (San Francisco), $200,000; the St. Louis Aquarium, $1,500,000; the New York Aquarium, antiquated but visited by millions annually (and now being re-stuccoed) after years of supremacy in the U. S. A commission of experts was sent last autumn to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity in Berlin, lighting of tanks in London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum...
Color variations will be the distinct factor in 1927 motor car models. The autumn wares of practically all manufacturers have now been set forth, and they show a surprising lack of mechanical modifications. Only a few of the 34 advertisements surveyed-for the most part they completely filled magazine or newspaper pages-emphasized mechanical features. Almost all stressed "new colors." The following, of the new models, have features which may be termed new: Buick. "The artistic upholstery and interiorware patterns in the beautiful new Fisher Bodies for 1927, were created especially for Buick . . . the finishes on the new Buicks...
...capture of a ferryboat, and highly improbable treasure hunt, are matters for the thrice-fortunate reader to follow alone. The Significance being, simply, that the commonplace has suddenly, with sublime and innocent vulgarity, comic pedantry, unflagging ebullience, gone stark, raving romantic. Here is one book, at least, for which Autumn, 1926, is destined to be memorable. The Author, born in Bay City, Mich., 33 years ago, has been a newspaperman ever since he grew up. Detroit, St. Louis, and more lately Baltimore...
...could keep fickle sports-lovers' interest-Tilden, Jones, Wills . . . Last week Mr. Pyle secured a prize beyond his dreams-a sporting primadonna. Suzanne Lenglen, temperamental world's champion tennis player, artiste of the courts, signed a $110,000 contract for a four-months' exhibition tour this autumn through the U. S., Canada, Cuba, Mexico, after which she will appear in a tennis film. She hopes that tennis will soon be like golf in permitting amateurs to compete with professionals in open meets without jeopardizing their amateur standing. Said Mr. Pyle: "I do not anticipate the slightest trouble...