Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owen West of Illinois became Secretary of the Interior without reasonable doubt that the Senate would confirm him when it meets. Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
...Hoover reception would be complete, however, if it represented the university's attitude as one of unalloyed satisfaction with Herbert Hoover. Like any other social microcosm, the Stanford community (faculty, students, trustees, alumni) has its discontented minority-men who will never agree that all Hoover has done for Stanford has been for the best. They complain, chiefly, that under the Hoover influence-he has been on the Board of Trustees since 1912 -Stanford has changed from a liberal arts college of limited enrolment, which it was founded to be, into an evergrowing institute of technology. None knew better than...
...Roller skating is encouraged in the stock rooms of large stores that occupy vast areas. Errand and stock boys and girls are equipped with skates, and besides getting around faster, think of the fun! Marshall Field in Chicago started this. In New York we hear it is done at Altman's and at Macy...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...
...this buried land. At the helm is Columbus O'Donnell Iselin 2nd, 24-year-old oceanographer, Harvard graduate and romanticist, son of the late Lewis Iselin. Last year, in his 76-foot fishing schooner The Chance, he dredged, collected specimens along the Labrador coast, as he had previously done along the Gulf Stream, Bermudas, Atlantic Coast...