Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trading in election futures was brisk, last week, on the Royal Exchange. Such trading, Englishmen like to think, is not "betting on the election." Certainly the thing is done in London with a flair and a nice decorum equaled nowhere else on earth. Indeed most U. S. citizens would find themselves flabbergasted if asked to devise the machinery for placing bets on an election which has so many queer features (General Parliamentary Election, TIME...
Noah stroked his patriarchal beard thoughtfully: "Woodrow, if you were to live on earth again and there was another big flood what five democrats would you take into...
...play has been successful the rectangle play should be still more so, George Rosener has written one about three men and a maid. Subtly done it might not have been bad, but Mr. Rosener apparently wrote it with a sledgehammer, and the cast plays it through a megaphone. The Earth Between. The latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds...
...pilot of the rearmost glider cut loose from the train and coasted comfortably to earth. Then the pilot of the other trailer did likewise. Finally the motored plane landed...
...snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...