Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Better come early anyway," replied the War Office. "Our uniforms will be strange to your horses. Think of our bearskins...
...week's Yukon news was not gold or provincial politics. President Roosevelt has already given his blessing to a scheme for building a $20,000,000 motor highway through British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska. With the fusion of British Columbia and the Yukon there is a better chance that the road will get under way. This project, endorsed by many a tourist organization and chamber of commerce, is disliked by those who think that such a road might be used for military purposes in the event of war between the U. S. and a Far Eastern power...
Since it was Strong Man Flores da Cunha, a doughty soldier who can tie a steer singlehanded, who helped boost his friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores...
...Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among his colleagues for executive ability and tact. He plays an excellent game of tennis and. with his wife Pearl as a partner, an even better game of bridge...
...William H. Simon, proprietor of a string of Los Angeles dairy lunches. They have adopted two children. She is a tall woman with aquiline features and wild hair who, like many over-energetic people, walks with a shuffle. She admires Strindberg's plays, feels that men make better actors than women and that her sex has little place in the production end of show business. "Once a woman stops being feminine, people don't like to have her around." Her present deal is the result of an interview with Adolph Zukor in which she presented an idea...