Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This project has been going forward for some time, but last week Navy Department officials announced that it would first be tried out on . U. S. merchant ships now plying between Manhattan and San Francisco. The idea, in essence, is to create on each merchant ship a body of officers trained as a unit in naval technique and capable of being instantly transferred to command a fighting ship...
...Arcola Amusement Park, N. J., one George Romanov, side-show wrestler, swelled his muscles, slapped his paunch, grunted at the crowd, "Who's nex'? Who's nex'?" No burly boy came forward. So Wrestler Romanov, feeling potent, had the show's trained bear brought into the ring. The bear patted, pawed, nuzzled Wrestler Romanov, hugged him close. Wrestler Romanov squirmed, grunted, plunged from the ring, ran?bear behind?to Saddle River, dove in, swam to safety...
Mussolini is an amusing demagog. His oratory is chiefly interrogation. "What country do you love?" he cries. "Italy!" roar the Italians. "Who will die for Italy?" he booms. "We all will!" chorus the Italians. "Shall I go backward or forward?" he thunders. "Forward!" howls the mob. And Mussolini has gone forward.?Dr. Robert Michels of the University of Basle, contributing to the theme "Dictatorship v. Democracy in Europe...
...Stillman, hearing the shutters click, thought publicity had reached its limit and passed beyond. She rushed forward crying: "This is for my friends, not for photographers...
GRAY SHEEP-Dillwyn Parrish- Harper ($2). Dillwyn Parrish, brother of Anne Parrish, the Perennial Bachelor lady, last year came forward as another sharp-eyed anatomist of life's nobodies. Repugnantly dear to him is the tragicomedy of middling people-middling honest, middling happy, middling alive. He called his first novel Smith Everlasting. The Rev. Fred Rain of Gray Sheep is another victim of everlasting Smithness in body, mind and spirit-a figure at once lovable, pitiful and contemptible from the equivocal nature of Smithness, for which another name is stagnation...