Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ship-Beauty. With the air full of birdsong and Findhorn murmurs, tactful Georges Leygues, France's fearsomely mustached Minister of Marine, ex-Prime Minister of France (1921), did his little bit for peace. He could not reduce France's navy, but at least he could make it look peaceable, he could beautify it. So France's new battleships and cruisers are to be decorated with sculpture and figured bas-reliefs. Charged with beautifying the battleships was an elderly sculptor, named Moreau-Vauthier...
Similarly, talk about himself for the presidency was no novelty to Hero Young, who heard quite a bit of it early last year. If he heard last week's Washington talk he did not show it but prepared, after the wedding, to present his "private citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last...
...authorities would be faced with one of two alternatives if they adopted the suggestion made by Mr. Frederick Windsor of Middlesex. They would either have to assign rooms to Middlesex men. Exeter men or Boston Latin men, away from their schoolmates for three years. This seems to be a bit extreme: or else they would have to assign the Freshman a room next to his schoolmate, and we would have school cliques and isolation of groups even more than we do now. The beauty of the Freshman Dormitories at present is that although the private or public school...
...island was long the wish of Mrs. Helen K. Morton of San Francisco. In this she was like many another person who yearns for the sovereign feeling of ruling a bit of water-locked land...
...believed that his temperance campaign would be merely a "plan of persuasion and education against drink" were shaken by a bill he signed last week. By it the police were empowered to close instantly and forever any saloon, cabaret or liquor shop where "scandalous conduct" is reported. Worried publicans bit their nails in anxiety over what the police might consider "scandalous conduct...