Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself. True, Roach Straton had trained this supple shoot (Hillyer Hawthorne Straton) with his own unswerving hand; had taught him righteousness with his own fierce tongue-the hand and tongue that have repeatedly been brandished to denounce modern young womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures of vice to buttress the faith of Americanos ("I saw there what I never saw here-girls actually taking out their lipsticks in public. They used so much paint on their lips that they soaked it off with the soup...
...their report explain why the Government did not place the magazines under ground, where danger would have been minimized? Can they discount the contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials...
...Significance of this brain-scattered little book is that it may be Stephen Leacock's last humorous publication. His wife died lately and he has been dedicating most of his time and energy to driving from the face of the earth the disease that killed her, cancer (TIME, Feb. 1, MEDICINE). However, his publishers have asked him to "discover America" as he did England (My Discovery of England, 1922), and it would indeed be surprising if circumstances could permanently stifle the prolific originality that has spurted from his pen for 16 years, and that has lately been applied, with...
...horse was to have vanished from the face of the earth at the advent of gas machinery. But the automotive industry is at a peak, and there are more U. S. farm horses than ever before. Similarly, it is natural to conclude that wireless communication is superseding cable lines. But, last week, the Western Union Co. manifested the continued vigor of its industry, spurred perhaps by radio competition, by landing the Newfoundland shore-end of a new New York-to-London cable costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining...
GYPSY DOWN THE LANE-Thames Williamson-Small, Maynard (2.50). "The gypsy watches sky and earth, and both are lately swiftly changing. The heavens are day by day more tender, the air more soft-sweeter, my people. For a week the wind has ridden from the south, and with it the note of the bluebird, which is the note of springtime...