Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Years After. Apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, 24, accompanied her father last week when he tried and failed to find by memory's aid alone the little house at No. 8 Lowell Road, Concord, Mass., where he honeymooned 30 years ago with Mrs. Macdonald, who died when Ishbel was 8. At last, Mr. Macdonald, who had concealed his destination from reporters as long as possible, was obliged to ask the way. With alacrity they told him, rushed ahead to plant the spiked tripods of their cinema cameras on the old Colonial porch of No. 8 Lowell Road...
...trial, Aaron Sapiro and his lawyer, William H. Gallagher, had leading roles. They insinuated that the Ford attorneys had forced a mistrial to prevent Henry Ford from taking the witness stand. Incidentally, Mr. Sapiro was no doubt annoyed to have spent a round sum of money-only to find far distant the $1,000,000 which he hopes to get from Mr. Ford because of certain anti-Jewish articles published in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). It did not seem likely that a new trial could be arranged before next autumn. During the life of the Sapiro-Ford...
...Field God. Those who expected Paul Green's second play to be like his first this season, In Abraham's Bosom (TIME, Jan. 17), a contemplation of the North Carolina Negro, may have been surprised to find him now gazing with catholic compassion upon the tragedy of a white North Carolina farmer who marries his niece in defiance of rooted superstitions. Stern Jehovah frowns upon the unorthodox union-their offspring is taken in death, the crops fail. A dying baby is God's revenge. In the end love prevails over the code. The angry blast...
Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...
...money. Those men who play in college play for recrestion, and not as a duty. They do not have to work hard; they play. Men on a major league team work very bara every day or they soon lose out. Consequently when college graduates come into organized baseball, they find it very difficult to get down to the hard strain of every day playing...