Word: dove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris and all the rest of it, he felt that indeed a new era had begun...
...York Stock Exchange, a busy floor man was asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift of ticker-tape. "138½ and still going up!" he reported. Berlin bought 3,000 shares...
...Heart of a Follies Girl should not be touched with a forty-foot pole. The plot is like a last year's fresh egg. The captions are like nice round soup dishes full of soup. The girl (Billie Dove) is like a seven-course dinner in which each course is a can of condensed milk...
...Kellogg sound out the other great powers on the question of ignoring Article X and forming a posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle is the League of Nations...
Nearing shore in the midafternoon, a seaplane, like a dove of peace, was loosed from the Texas. Cuban planes swept out to meet it. All ships in the harbor tied their whistles open. In steamed the Texas and dropped anchor near to where the Maine was blown...