Word: doves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DOVE - A good instance of the lithograph drama, retouched by Belasco...
...bright shiny pennies and loans and credits that it may want. But should it do anything that might be called naughty Uncle Sam will be severe and not grant it even the most secured dollar's credit. Thus Uncle Sam with his money bags will stand guard over the dove of peace...
Here is an appalling commixture of cross-purposes, opposite intentions, and dense miscomprehension. The problem, in itself difficult to grasp, is inextricably dove-tailed with questions of German reparations. French public finance, allied debts to England, and American monopoly of the world's gold, and it is complicated by contrary theories of international trade. Threatening factions between the former allies cannot be overlooked. The danger of over-whelming the French government with bankruptcy is very real, for present loans are being subscribed on the assumption that the United States will not insist upon the collection of its war loans...
According to latest dispatches the dove of peace hovers once more above the Nile. The Egyptian bomb had been set and timed to blow up the vestiges of English power. After much smoke and a few sparks, it exploded with a resounding "Piff!", and instead of the British lion, Zagloul Pasha heads the casualty list...
...comes Mills." Then: "Here comes Skeel. Note his speed." Down from a great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five years of the Pulitzer velocity tests. Lieut. Mills' time of 216.55 m.p.h...