Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's first worry was railroad accommodations; he wired ahead for three parlor car seats and was amazed to find a special train awaiting him. With him and his wife on that strained journey to the capital rode the Boston businessman named Stearns whose ancient dream of a Northampton mayor in the White House was coming true...
...being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, returning from Turkey aboard...
...problem to unjustifiably simple terms. His querist springs from a clash between fundamentalism and atheism. He is the son of an unyielding minister and he is in love with the daughter of a belligerent unbeliever. Driven by the fear inspired by both these attitudes he sets out to find a god before whom he will not have to cower...
...Whispering Gallery. Those who frighten easily and enjoy it will probably find this mystery play more interesting than the recent average. It is frankly of the "I-wouldn't-spend-another-night-in- this-house-for-a-million-dollars" school, but it has its moments. The plot revolves around a house-party at a "haunted" country seat. Better acted, it would be more diverting, for it has comedy touches that might cover the holes in the construction if played with more subtlety. A. P. Kaye as a detective and Charles Warburton as the inevitable butler give thoroughgoing performances...
...about the firing squads, the fellows waiting for death in front of leveled rifles? The news has to get there in time. Suppose you are an English officer, and you fall in love with a beautiful girl, but when you are made a spy and sent to Germany you find she is a spy too, but on the other side, and she has to choose between you and her flag, and chooses her flag, as you want her to deep down in your heart, and then you're sentenced and she relents, but she can't change...