Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Mr. Loree was marking time in his Eastern merger negotiations because of his troubles with the Interstate Commerce Commission over his Kansas City Southern-Missouri, Kansas & Texas-Cotton Belt merger in the Southwest...
...lines are low and rakish. The lower part of the body is green with a belt of yellow and-red striping around the door and window molding. The rear seat in the passenger compartment is large enough to accommodate three fares. There is a single folding seat in a recess well forward where the right hand forward seat of a pleasure car would come. The extra room gives the fourth passenger plenty of space for his legs . . . the running board is not wide enough to accommodate a trunk, nor is there any trunk rack in the rear...
...Colonel. He was only a buck private. She flirted with the officers. He peeled potatoes for them. The pair loved. To reach him for a hurried marriage ceremony before the outfit sailed for France, she put her slim young legs into a soldier's uniform, but forgot the belt. When the pants slipped, the audience squealed. Doughboys may have shooting pains when they see the army scenes, but picture patrons will deem eye-worthy this implausible, happy comedy with Laura La Plante, pretty, funny, spontaneous as a sneeze...
...Farm legislation. Smith has given no indication of his stand. Farm relief is a problem with which he has had little personal experience. He is not at home in the Corn Belt...
...Lowden's rivals is not to oppose him in the States which his friends regard as his farm constituency, partly because they think Lowden will win these States any-way and partly "because the Republican leaders do not want to give further occasion for seeming unsympathetic to the Corn Belt...