Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Texas Guinan's Mimic Helen Morgan's Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks...
...fragrant or emollient fluids," cried Dr. Gauducheau, "penetrate through the natural channels of the vascular system into the most distant tissues and uttermost fibres. By a refinement of my method I can infallibly impart different attributes to various parts of the same fowl, transforming a pigeon, for example, into a veritable symphony of flavors and a bouquet of delicate pastel colors...
...Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will sit quietly, having done nothing but what they were told to do by their Boss. Seen off the floor, however...
...awareness of the discrepancy between these well defined groups of students, separated here only by the loose candidature for distinction thus steadily grows, official recognition of the gap cannot be too distant an eventuality. The complete reservation of the Reading Period and the Tutorial System for the students who elect honors and retain their position with honor grades, may or may not be possible and desirable. But with the experiments with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity...
...removal of the war tax. The advantages of merging in business have been put to a long enough test so that now there is no general cry of a populace fearing control by the trusts whenever such an important transaction occurs: the Big Stick was buried in the distant past, and the present sees no necessity for resurrecting it. Where three or tour concerns are in essential control of an industry, the dangers of monopoly are absent, and still the benefit to be had from unified management and production exists...