Word: doings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have...
Liliom, a Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife...
(2 of 3) a "gesture," replied that as a "gesture" he thought it would be "very weak." Kentucky's Senator Barkley (Democrat) pointed out that it was "no gesture" to reduce tariff on "something that does not matter while increasing it on things that do." Nevertheless, foreign countries must reduce...
The "outside" world, with its 7,285,079 registration, has about as many automobiles as the U. S. had in 1919. There are now almost four times as many motor cars in the U. S. as there were in 1919. It is not likely that Europe will multiply its motor...
"The stock market today is a fair game. Everybody has a chance. That is, everybody who isn't a fool. But a man can't expect to make money on a stock if he buys without any faintest notion-of what tha stock is?as so many fools do."