Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertaining part of the conference was not way the girl from--shsh--held a cigarette or the longnette on the delegate from come come, come but the colossal criticism mothered by one majesty of mental vacuity who just loved to criticise. I think she would criticise on her death bed, and I rather hope--but that really is not nice at all, do you think so? Anyway when she said that one delightful bit of verse by a certain delightful bit of femininity was "Quite too unexpressive and not sufficiently motivated". I felt a sympathy for that child of Gerhart...
...ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard in the U. S. between 11 and midnight. Mme. Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics of the Western Hemisphere in singing "Auld Lang...
Died. W. L. (Walther Lionel) George, 44, famed English novelist of the "Georgian" school (Caliban, Ursula, Trent, A Bed of Roses, The Story of Woman, etc.), for several years signator with his third wife of a saccharine U. S. syndicated "column" dealing with sex problems; in London, of pneumonia...
Self-made men have many of them adopted the principle that their sons should go into the factory and "learn the business from the ground up". Thus innumerable scions of wealthy American families have been transplanted from the flower bed of college to the vegetable patch of industry-and usually with beneficial results. Last spring The Nation advanced the theory that the whole body of college students are fit candidates for such stringent routine that they may face the "realities of industrial America." Therefore The Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer...
...February, Rowe and Greenlees were astonished to find in the rock surface a rectangular bed of plaster of paris. There seemed to have been little attempt at concealment because with the mud and small pieces of rock conglomerate brushed off the plaster was instantly recognizable. The rectangular shape seemed definitely to show that a stairway was cut into the rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great...