Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubting Thomases were told that the new ships represent a tremendous advance in safety over any lighter-than-air craft yet built. They will be 72 feet longer than the Los Angeles, 1,000-horsepower more potent, equally fast, but not able to match the Los Angeles' cruising range of 6,000 miles...
...turned to the shrewd youthful Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 29, as their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore has no "rights of succession," but he and his clever mother, the Archduchess Isabella, have adroitly built up the "Free Electoral Party" of Hungary to a feverish pitch of resolution in his support...
Young like the sheetlets that he has built, Philip A. Payne is a managing editor at 32. Soon after the War, by working on Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald-Examiner and New York American, he found what "news" the gum-chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward...
...flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans...
...Once hounded and reviled, Shaw is now at most a "lovable" character, with an enormous following. Time has proved many of his social radicalisms to have been sound and if he made false prophecies he also made lasting ones. When he announced his intention of writing a serious play built around the life of Joan of Arc, the critics laughed and settled back to await a Shavian monster, born of satire and nursed with venom. But "St. Joan", when produced, was recognized to be more than an expression of an eccentric personality. In its still short career it has been...