Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country gains nothing. Is there a man or woman in the U. S. who would have less respect for our President if he traveled in the world's finest private train, costing perhaps $1,000,000? Let me answer my own question by saying that the peoples of the earth would all have more respect for our President if he lived and traveled in a style worthy of the U. S. I have traveled in almost every Latin-American country, and I know that $10 worth of increased prestige for our country can be reaped for every dollar sown...
...rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone, then, as he allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame spread, there came offers for lecture tours. For some time her objections to the theatre kept her from mounting a stage of any sort. Finally she saw opportunity to gain temperance converts, accepted speaking offers, became rich. When she spoke in burlesque theatres...
...room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me, I conjure you to have my body opened so I may not be buried alive...
...Other titles in this series: The Stream of Life by Julian S. Huxley; Age of the Earth by Arthur Holmes; Science of Today by Sir Oliver Lodge; The Genius of Shakespeare by G. B. Harrison; A History of England by David Somervell...
...stalls people were a bit surprised. Here was a book that not only rivaled "Messer Marco Polo" on its own ground, so to speak, but had something else beside--a haunting something, intangible but with a sweet tang to it, like the smell of lavender or the earth after a rain. Now Donn Bryne appears once again--with "Brother Saul...