Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twilight of the poets," predicted that the next important movement would be in the theatre. It might not be easy to convince the free versiflors that their genius is fading in crepuscular gloom. But the playwrites have no doubt whatever that they are ascending the skies on the car of Aurora. Young and old, they are up and doing in the tank town and the university no less than in Broadway. If the eager groping of the many proves wiser than those who are appointed to guide it, it will not be the First time
...sent to that body. ¶ The same day that Congress was hearing his message from the lips of its clerks, Mr. Coolidge and his wife left Washington for Chicago to attend the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. They traveled both ways in a drawingroom of an ordinary pullman car, and ate in the diner. (Cost of a special train $6,000; a private car $2,200. Estimated cost of the journey to the party $500. The saving is to the Government since cost is paid out of the President's expense account.) Comment: 1) "Good example of economy...
...vaults of the Treasury, watching the pennies, but his virtuous vigilance is at last rewarded from an unexpected quarter. A dime which he let drop unbeknown, has returned, but not to plague him. The grateful finder ate a hearty meal, went to work, probably as a street car conductor, for he says that he "now has many dimes". The accidental leavings of great men have a magical potency...
...chauffeur hurriedly put the shattered car into "third" and made off for the Residency, official home of His Excellency Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan...
Meanwhile, the students had fled from the scene of their crime, pursued ineffectually by two Englishmen mounted on motor cycles. An unexploded Mills bomb was later found on the spot where the car had stopped? a spot where two years previously two Englishmen were similarly murdered. Several suspects were later arrested...