Word: dayâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Florian won his desire and brought Melior home as his duchess. Then his disenchantment began. Melior was as beautiful as day???a beautiful, chattering fool. And as for Holy St. Hoprig, whom Florian discovered alive in the flesh?the saint's conversation alone destroyed Florian's belief in holiness completely. The child of .sacrifice was born, and then the end came an end too odd and unexpected for us to reveal here. Suffice it to say that it taught Florian that the great law of living is "thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor" and that wisdom...
...riveter, a sandhog, a bush league pitcher, Regular Army Sergeant, a worker in the steel mills, a miner, a railroad engineer, a hoofer in the three-a-day???where are their stories? Where are the stories of the people without inherited incomes who have neither time, money nor opportunity for the elegant complications of country club life? They themselves are inarticulate? But is anyone more inarticulate artistically than the average bond salesman...
During four days of the Shriners' Convention in Washington: 50,000 visitors called at the White House. 20,000 of them called on one day??? the largest number of guests at the White House in any day of its history. 10,000 visitors shook the President's hand. At nearly all hours the lines of waiting visitors extended several blocks from the White House in the broiling sun. 1,000 persons were admitted at a time by the White House police, the usual formality of admission by card being disregarded...
...increase the mileage of freight cars to an average of 30 miles a day???if necessary by the use of embargoes to prevent congestion...
Official figures on immigration do not tell the whole story, however. The business of smuggling aliens into the country is proceeding at an alarming rate. Estimates of the number gaining illegitimate entry is from 100 to 1,000 a day???or between 36,500 and 365,000 a year. The number of aliens deported last year was 4,366, a small fraction of either number...