Word: ended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover week-end outing: to the Shenandoah National Park Camp. Pastimes: building a dam across a creek to make a swimming pool; pitching horseshoes...
...end, the Conference smothered the controversy, adopted no resolution at all. But as the discussions passed on to other topics, the Governor of North Carolina, talking on special treatment for youthful criminals, found opportunity to show himself more subtle than his thunderous neighbor, with this allusion: "The tendency of American reformers is almost never to teach, to educate public opinion, to convince gradually the citizenry of the value of reform, but is to secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble...
Proud was he of that "snapper" on the end of his acceptance speech. He said afterward: "I suppose I've gone Cal one better with that 'Who could say no?' I'll pay for that. Some wag will follow me to my grave...
...nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full of faith in the future...
JOURNEY'S END-English gentlemen in a World War dugout, emotionally stripped for action (TIME, APRIL...