Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...
Caste. Cosmo Hamilton, brother of famed Journalist-Novelist Sir Philip Gibbs and of Novelist A. Hamilton Gibbs, also writes books and plays over which the giddy serving maid may smack her lips. His are Michael Arlen's people done in the more obvious, juicy manner of a movie scenario. Even when he has a problem which presumably he feels to be formidable, he must deal with it in cream phrases. His problem is intermarriage between an estimable Jew and a female of the higher social register. Her family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid...
...Manhattan from her ancestral mansion in the South, tells the gang of crooks who have packed her brother off to prison for a murder he did not commit, that she comes from Chicago. In view of this admission, even her inability to smoke cigarets as if she had done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster. Despite waste motion and a high degree of improbability...
When a weak sister among the nations (as Peru), who has been obliged to pay 7% and more interest on over $50,000,000, borrowed from stronger sisters (as Peru has done), has opportunity to borrow $50,000,000 at only 6% interest, she hastens to make the new loan. This Peru did last week, by selling $50,000,000 of 6% bonds through J. & W. Seligman & Co., National City Company and their syndicate associates. The Peruvian government has determined to devote at least half of the new money to buying back bonds which carry the higher rates of interest...
...guide their tastes in books. Miss Loveman makes no speeches, marches in no parades, is seldom mentioned on the radio. She gets out The Saturday Review. Accurate, tireless, tactful, intelligent she is a serene, important, almost indispensable character in the book of literary life. In honor of good deeds done quietly she was given the first copy of Claire Ambler. Her book was autographed by F. N. Doubleday, George Doran, Booth Tarkington. Eminent speechmaking critics drew succeeding copies of the de luxe edition...