Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme, last week, of energetic statements from the U. S. Shipping Board and the leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead, she had paused in New York only long enough to take aboard a capacity passenger list for the first Cunard trip to Havana...
Cable. Most important of Western Union's undersea innovations is the newly laid, $2,000,000 link between Newfoundland and the Azores. Back and forth, last week, sped test messages. The service will be opened to the public this month...
Murray and Budd a goodly number.) In general, the new models taper from rear to front. That gives roomy back seats. By widening rear axles, manufacturers have obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
...holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do. ... Thus I have seen the tragedy enacted that has taken the lives of 114 men and one woman...
...Back Seat Drivers is a farce in which two women try to manage their husbands' finances. They get involved in crockery and their husbands have to catch thieves. Spots of this are funny, in a modest...