Word: givings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...square miles of territory containing one million Hungarians plus less than a half-million inhabitants of other nationalities. The proposals verbally quoted by Dr. Rajniss rang true. They sounded like Masaryk, intelligent, magnanimous. Of course they did not envision yielding to the extreme Hungarian irredentist demand: "Czechoslovakia must give us back the whole 14,000 square miles...
When a girl starts to learn golf in England the professional who gives her her first lesson usually begins by showing her some photographs of Joyce Wethered. Putting, chipping, driving. Miss Wethered's supple shadow has thus come to dominate women's golf abroad and, to a large extent, in the U. S. Since Miss Wethered seldom bothers to play in tournaments any more, the British Women's National played without her last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook...
...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...
...told you it would not be a surprise"-to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier-I am Scottie too; 3) a slate-Let us reckon up our debits and credits...
...third time in the U. S. For her first Manhattan program she gave five new dances and the audience cheered her louder than at the so-called debut a year ago (TIME, Nov. 19). Immediately thereafter she entrained for Buffalo, thence to Rochester. This year she will give some 60 recitals, go as far West as the Coast...