Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rendezvous for interesting Americans. She was active in Belgian relief work, was President of the Girl Scouts in 1923, and is vitally interested in all educational enterprises. More talkative than her husband, she once said: "If you want to get the gloomiest view of any subject on earth, ask Bert about...
...Strangers from Nowhere. They might as well return from the place whence they came. The author, Myron C. Fagan, seems to have turned Devil's advocate, for no reason at all. He summons Mephistopheles to earth, for the purpose of sending an erring wife back to her struggling husband, and of reproving characters whenever they speak unkindly of their Maker. At times the play sounds like Faust being run backwards. It is simply propaganda for the author's private views on practically everything. Fritz Lieber in the leading role is enamored of his interminable speeches...
...never sets on the British flag. Soon the voice of the monarch it symbolizes will reach to the uttermost parts of the earth and come back to the speaker. It was announced that at 11:30 A. M. Greenwich time, April 23, His Britannic Majesty would formally open the BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION at Wembley. For the first time, in English history, the actual voice of the monarch will be broadcast and heard simultaneously in thousands of homes in every part of the Empire. Carried by undersea cables when the air waves fail, along the All-British cable route across Canada...
Beebe has been fortunate in his coworkers. He has the sort of personality that attracts men and women of talent. Just how many American millionaires each year offer him transportation to far ends of the earth so that they may be taken along on his delightful pilgrimages, is a matter for speculation. At any rate, the Galápagos trip was made under the auspices of Mr. Harrison Williams and his yacht Notna...
...archipelago where no human beings live but a small colony of convicts; where only pirates, adventurers, and scientific expeditions have sojourned, where flora and fauna of vanished geological ages flourish in greater abundance and variety than in any other spot on the earth's surface-that describes the Galápagos, locale of William Beebe's latest scientific and literary exploits. His new book* issued under the auspices of the New York Zoölogical Society, is a saga of man, the ever-curious, in a garb that fits the tale, replete with gorgeous color plates, beautiful photography...