Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many smart, shallow people is "just a fat man who was lucky. But solid citizens still believe in him. They showed their faith when the franc was tottering (TIME, May, 3, 1926) by subscribing 19,000,000 francs to the Joffre Save the Franc Fund. Last week the final scene in that impressive drama was acted at Paris...
While Charles Augustus Lindbergh put final commas in his book, We, mechanics put final nut-twists and spurts of oil on The Spirit of St. Louis. Government mechanics at the same time got ready a U. S. Department of Commerce monoplane and all was prepared for Colonel Lindbergh to leave New York for his eight-week tour of the U. S., escorted by Donald E. Keyhoe of the information section of the U. S. Aeronautics Bureau. Their itinerary was announced...
...granting the 31-day respite, the Governor did not give any indication of what may be his final action. His Advisory Committee (President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, President Samuel W. Stratton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Judge Robert Grant) has not as yet held any meetings, presumably owing to Commencement duties of two of its members. Friends of Mr. Sacco & Mr. Vanzetti were disappointed because the respite was only for one month, but of course there is no reason why Governor Fuller cannot grant as many additional respites as seem necessary...
...stable cause, while his son, Bob (Charles E. Mack*), trailed the new-fangled enemy. Only after Barney Oldfield (who appears in the film) has roared over a race track at the unprecedented speed of 60 miles per hour, and Sloe Eyes, his last mare, has taken her final earthly hurdle, does the old horse-lover give in to the conquering gas-buggy. By that time his son has grown romantic under the influence of the heroine (Patsy Ruth Miller) and returned to the horse tradition, leaving the house as hopelessly divided against itself as before...
...repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic Civil War veteran; and the one proposal of her lifetime from the genteel but seedy "young master" of her final situation, would be ludicrous, were not Alma's extreme case handled with purpose of extreme purity...