Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What will be the six or the ten best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing...
...Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come under the following instructions: "If you do your part, your share in the gate receipts should take care of your expenses; if you think you are good there is no excuse for your not being here; if you really are good here is the place it will pay you to prove...
...During our last day at sea many of us were attacked by a temporary indisposition, not due to seasickness but to food put up in a can. . . . All have recovered almost completely, and the President has about recovered as well. Had he been able yesterday to care for himself he would have been in his usual vigorous health this morning. . . . He was two hours in the sun bareheaded acknowledging the plaudits and the cordial reception he received, and afterwards he spoke to more than 180,000 people at three different times, so that the President, physical and intellectual giant that...
...Bureau evidently intends to go on with its plans. Meanwhile, in parts of the South the attitude of the Alabama whites is found incomprehensible. In Louisiana, for example, the attitude is: "For goodness' sake, let the Negroes take care of themselves! We don't want whites to have...
...announced his intention of pressing the bill and the Amendment to the Constitution, which would give Congress power to make laws " on marriage and divorce, the legitimization of children, and the care and custody of children affected by annulment of marriage or by divorce...