Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremony drew to a close and King Michael descended the Tribune he ran happily to Princess Helene, crying: "Let's go home, mama, I'm hungry." Soon a special train carried His Majesty swiftly to his distant chateau, the Little Pelesh. At Bucharest the royal grown-ups turned their attention to the funeral of King Ferdinand...
...garrison at Ocotal continued to number only 39 marines; and observers agreed that they would almost certainly have been wiped out last week had not U. S. scouting planes chanced to witness the attack by General Sandino and summoned heavy bombers from Managua, 110 miles distant (a five-day march). Who was responsible for stationing-so puny a U. S. force in a region known to be enemy-infested...
...NEXT AGE OF MAN?Albert Edward Wiggam ? Bobbs-Merrill ($3). "Plainly, it is a crisis in the affairs of human beings." It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones which control female reproductive organs will be harnessed, put into pills, sold at corner drug stores. Thus will parents be able to determine the nature and the number of their offspring. A finer race will be bred. Evolution will become "peaceful, happy, benign...
...thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic Civil War veteran; and the one proposal of her lifetime from the genteel but seedy "young master" of her final situation, would be ludicrous, were not Alma's extreme case handled with purpose of extreme purity...
...Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy in the famed Teapot Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that he can get out of France without a passport, but he cannot legally enter any of the countries bordering France, which would seem to confine his movements to the high seas...