Word: disconnectedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For the four pastel bathrooms and two auxiliary lavatories in her new house at Northampton, Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, widow of the 30th President, picked out the very latest in streamlined water closets, ivory finish and requiring no outside vents. They had been installed, when Plumbing Inspector Carl Eddy ordered...
Also in a "disconnected and scattered" way, Chairman Morgan had proposed a separate TVA coinage, and taking land away from farmers who misused it.
Loading their three boats (weighing four tons) on sledges, and carrying three and a half tons of food, the crew started over the ice, with Siberia 500 miles south of them. In eight days they traveled five and a half miles. But the ice had moved beneath them: they were...
Settling in Manhattan after their honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. "John King Roosa Jr., Republicans, learned that their telephone number (Rhinelander 4-7428) had once belonged to the town house of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Came calls for Roosevelts, servants, secretaries. James Roosevelt rang up. A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to apologize...
The scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his...