Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built and a commodious Convention Hall. An eccentric old Kentucky colonel, Thomas H. Swope, grew so enthusiastic that he donated 1,354 acres to give Kansas City, Mo., the fourth largest public park in the U. S.* Swope Park, with its bathing beach, golf courses...
...Dave had done nothing but be born their brother's brothers. But the Parish people wanted more blood. Sheriff Turner guessed the Blackman brothers had better be moved to the Shreveport jail. Three deputies fetched them in a car, one day last week...
...Bess is a Negro; He used to be better off than most South Carolina Negroes. He owned a good farm in Florence County. Some Negroes considered him lucky because he rented part of his land to some white trash named Collins and had his way with the Collins woman. She was about 45 years old and pretty trashy. But, she was white...
...spared on trouble or cost with the cast and the staging. The favorites of last year are back, and again the same spirit of general good humore runs through the show. You feel all the time that the cast is having as good a time as you are--perhaps--better, although that is hard to understand. The sets are what the crities are went to call lavish, and that is as good a word...
...regular orchestral season, and after all, it is natural that musical taste should approve a somewhat lighter fare in the spring than in the winter. Nevertheless, the complete renunciation of the most thoughtful music in favor of five-minute overtures has received a check, and the result promises still better balanced programs for May and June...