Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America, the dinner was an important affair. Present were, among others, eight members of the Cabinet, four ambassadors, four Senators, nine ministers, four Congressmen, three Hoover secretaries, two admirals, the Mayor of Philadelphia, et al. et ux. The setting was magnificent-a patio with orchids, palms, exotic birds, tropical fish. The dinner was also notable in that...
...prospect of an in crease in U. S. tariffs, particularly on farm products. Last year the U. S. sold Canada, its best customer, $916,000,000 worth of goods, mostly manufactured, buying in return some $489,000,000 worth of Canadian exports, chiefly wood and paper ($237,000,000), fish and meats ($88,000,000), farm products ($57,960,170). Loud was last week's talk of raising the Canadian tariff in retaliation. Premier McKenzie King called for "cool heads" in dealing with these international economic matters, but Canadian newspapers suggested that it was the King feet which were...
...fellow too well to suit her father. Best shot of any talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded her lover. In 1897, Mrs. John Charles Smith, a widow, ran a candy counter in a fish store in Toronto. Getting a job, later, with a stock company, she took her five-year-old daughter, Gladys, to the theatre because, she couldn't leave her at home. When Gladys was five she had a part in which she spoke one line: "Don't speak...
...socially elect in the House are likewise few, including Representatives Aldrich, Bacon, Beck, Fish, (Mrs.) McCormick, (Mrs.) Pratt, Snell, Tilson, Wainwright, Wigglesworth...
Those two investigators fed healthy students and hospital patients roast beef, hamburger (Liberty) steak, beefsteaks, stewed beef, boiled corned beef, dried beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress...