Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Big Pond was written by two astute dramatists, A. E. Thomas (Come Out of the Kitchen, Only 38) and George Middleton (The House of a Thousand Candles, Potty with a Past), husband of Fola La Follette (pioneer Lucy Stoner, daughter of the late Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette). Their...
Prostitution: "Mr. William Allen White sailed for Europe with a happy and contented mind. I hope, and I would not disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as...
The amount of liquor toped and swizzled in Sweden has been approximately halved during the past 15 years. Arrests for drunkenness have been halved. Crimes of violence have been reduced almost two-thirds. Swedes give the credit to Dr. Ivan Bratt. Yet he has just resigned as President of the...
Governor Wallace Rider Farrington welcomed many a bigwig from Great Britain and the U.S. to his now contented islands, where the natives ride the waves with surf boards and where the weather is so good that nobody needs to write about it. Japanese make up the largest population group, but...
The intimation was allowed to escape with contented British smugness that Colonel Lawrence, whose Arab friends have created him a Prince of Mecca, is now using his unique influence to combat the Pan-Asiatic schemes of the Amir of Afghanistan-who recently toured Europe, was the guest of George V...