Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retinue were Secretary Work, Speaker Gillett of the House, General Sawyer (White House physician), secret service men, stenographers, messengers, secretaries, secretaries of Secretaries, 22 journalists, five photographers and others completing a total of 65 or 70. Secretaries Hoover and Wallace were to join the entourage en route to the Pacific...
Electrification of railways in the South is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the entire main line of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranéen Railway stretching from Paris to Ventimiglia on the Italian frontier will be electrified next year. It is said that France will have, in fifteen years, the finest railway system in Europe...
...amuse radio fans by talking to them through the transmitter of a wireless broadcasting apparatus. His mellifluent voice, heard by women listening in on the 50,000 receiving sets in France, has brought Radiolo many pressing matrimonial proposals. Recently he attended a theatre. The audience rose en masse to cheer him. Nor would they be appeased until M. Radiolo had bowed and repeated in his most sonorous tones: " Bon soir, messieurs. Bon soir, mesdames...
...There will also be relay races on the present track, which will be widened especially for the purpose. Events will take place every afternoon and every night with tickets at a $2 and $3 "top," respectively. And the champions, male and female, of the Western rodeos will arrive en masse...
...egotism of most authors heralds them and meets you as they en ter the door. I have yet to discover it in Hugh Walpole. He is the most modest author I know, yet, somehow, the most confident. He believes in his books; but he does not expect you to believe in them. If you do, he is glad. If you do not? well, then, there will always be another. Walpols is tall, broad-shouldered, practically always smiling. He has a broad fore head, He wears glasses. His plat form manner is excellent, and he speaks as he writes ? with...