Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youngest of the legal technicians to be called was Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30. Brooklyn-born, fair of face. Into three decades Dean Hutchins has packed much successful living. On the Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...
...fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...
...Army uniform, with a soldier of distinction inside it and its blouse-front ablaze with medals from four nations, has a high commercial value. The American Tobacco Co. appreciated this fact when, for a satisfactory compensation, it signed up Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the A. E. F.'s second army, as an endorser of Lucky Strike cigarets. The General is retired from the Army but in the advertisement which went the length and breadth of the land in newspapers and magazines he appeared in full military regalia, very stern, very distinguished, declaring: "An Army Man Must...
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...voice after midnight, she became famous after 20 years in vaudeville, stock, and westerns, as hostess of her own Manhattan night-club-the El Fay. An El Fay waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker."; Keeping her ebullience corsetable with a diet of broccoli and orange juice, she shouts "Pull up your water wings" whenever somebody upsets a bottle and "Give this little girl...