Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people even though he may recognize their charming weaknesses. He enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...
...bandit who performed this noteworthy feat must formerly have belonged to the Salvation Army--without intending to reflect upon the good name of that estimable organization--for in his gathering of miscellaneous coins and bills he showed a distinctly evangelistic spirit. Just what use he can have for English pennies is not at once discernible--although, unlike cats, all pennies do not look alike in the dark. He may have thought them quarters, in which case his perception and not his business sense was at fault. At any rate, one is relieved to know that he was "not the plumber...
...House. A whip has the difficult job of rounding up his party's followers and having them on the floor when every important vote is taken. Representative William A. Oldfield, of Arkansas, just entering upon his 16th year in the House, is whip for the Democrats. The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when...
...married Miss Millicent Rogers, of Manhattan, who was generally considered a likely heir to many Standard Oil millions. The Daily News, Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, made a series of grand stories out of what it termed "Count's Gold Tinted Love" (TIME, Jan. 21). It performed a feat for its kind of journal, a feat that almost challenged William Randolph Hearst to equal it. Doubtless, the News chuckled. But last week the Hearst press began to laugh last and best. It began to publish serially: "HOW I WOOED AND WON THE $40,000,000 ROGERS HEIRESS" By Count...
...versatility of a metropolitan daily. How can so much news from all over the world, so many features, and such a variety of photographs be gathered together so quickly, arranged in such readable form, and sold on the streets for a few pennies? To the layman, such a feat seems almost as miraculous as a tale from the Arabian Nights or one of the fanciful romances of H. G. Wells...