Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic State Committee of Vermont chose for its candidate in the election this Fall to choose a successor to the late William P. Dillingham, Park H. Pollard, first cousin to Calvin Coolidge...
...masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze by Malvina Hoffman. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, herself a sculptor of first rank, preferred Edward McCartan's bronze Fountain. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the good Boston doctor-philosopher, decided on The Grand Pitch, by George C. Hallowell. Other paintings and sculptures in the first 30 were by such standard...
...Garibaldi produced the Red Shirts (symbols of liberty) it is not unnatural that Mussolini should look to shirts as a political weapon. He founded the Black Shirts, or the Fascisti Party, on the political theory that Bolshevik tactics must be used to combat Bolshevism. It is said that he chose black on purely utilitarian grounds, including the financial aspect of decreased laundry bills. Having become a Napoleon overnight, he armed his black shirted minions with castor oil and the party song, Giovinezza?both equally deadly...
...will be the longest and highest capacity single cable across the Atlantic (4,500 miles), transmitting 50,000,000 words a year, or five times the volume of any existing Western Union cable. Present communication with Italy is relayed by land lines through England and France. The Western Union chose Italy for the destination of its largest cable because of " the growing prosperity of Italy under Mussolini...
...Doran ($1.75). Seventeen brief notes and essays by the most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...