Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have known anything about them," was the reply...
...Columbians knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, that he was a newspaperman who was once managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, more recently editor of the Paris Herald; that she was his wife. Columbians did not care to know much more, because the Enquirer-Sun was not much of a newspaper to bother about anyway...
President and Bishop took care that the Shannon did not gurgle in too fast, did not erode and spoil the sides of the $20,000,000 ditch. All in good time it will have trickled full, probably by next October. Then President Cosgrave will open other sluices at the farther end of the ditch where a new $15,000,000 hydro-electric power plant is now almost complete. As ditch water gushes through turbines, enough electric power will be made to light every home and hut in the Irish Free State...
...danger lessened, correspondents drew from Statesman Stimson a characteristically frank admission that the peace making had become rather a free-for-all. "As long as the important countries which control public opinion are mobilizing it against war," he said, "I do not care about the methods they are using or about which moved first...
Freddy is a blinking, fatuous caretaker on the Surrey estate of one Gommery who is busy trying to seduce a London actress. This leaves Mrs. Gommery idle, repressed. She would like to have Caretaker Freddy take care of her. Frightened, as an excuse for leaving, he invents for himself a-mistress in London to whom he must repair. By chance he selects the name of Mr. Gommery's actress. This mock disclosure precipitates an extremely dull, English-accented farce in the P. G. Wodehouse manner but without the Wodehumor. C. Stafford Dickens is playwright and Gommery. Raymond Walburn...