Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is definite. But it is not much out of which to build a picture of a foreign policy...
...secretary to a shrewd divorce lawyer, marries a millionaire lumberman. While the organist fingers, "O Promise Me," she figures the alimony. Knowing this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful picture...
Inventor Bellanca holds Col. Chamberlin's unqualified admiration. He reveals that Bellanca was spurned by the War Department in 1917 and 1918 when he offered to build a bombing plane, powered with two Liberty motors, that would have a speed of 183 miles an hour fully loaded with bombs, machine guns, and crew. The Government laughed at this Sicilian dreamer, although he always lived up to his promises. Incidentally, the plans still exist today and Col. Chamberlin believes that the ship, if built, would "outperform any bombing plane now in the possession of the Army or Navy...
...lacrosse season officially opens today with the arrival of head coach Talbot Hunter. The prospects for a successful season are excellent in as much as Coach Hunter will have a nucleus of more than ten of last year's veterans to build upon...
Having so spoken, General John Joseph Pershing entrained for Manhattan; at Manhattan embarked for Europe, for, as he has said, "My chief interests are the building of monuments in France to the memory of the service of American soldiers in the War, and assisting to build this great cathedral to the glory of Him to Whom we owe all our greatness. Many cathedrals unfortunately, have been destroyed in wars, and I, for one, should like to have a hand in building a cathedral...