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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life in those lusty days is a commendable one, and by carrying out his own precepts he has enriched our literature of the West of by-gone days. For the West he is describing is no more. One recognizes the fact with a certain sadness, intensified by the author's realistic setting forth of the attractiveness of the life, place, and pioneer constructiveness of the country he knew...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was a child of six whose father had just gone to Congress from Minnesota. The Wright Brothers were making sensational flights, staying in the air as long as 1 hr., 31 min., 25 4/5 sec. But not until the next year was Louis Blériot to astound the world by flying across the English Channel. If young Lindbergh had a hero the year Taft campaigned it was doubtless President Roosevelt, with whose son, Quentin, he used to play in the White House grounds. Legend says that "Cheese" Lindbergh was one of the boyish gang that inspired...
...Arthur F. Willebrandt was superintendent of a high school in Buckley, Mich. Mabel Elizabeth Walker was a girl of 21, teaching lumberjacks' children in the Buckley primary school. She had gone to Michigan with her parents from Kansas, where she was born in a sod hut on the prairie...
...Within, awaiting them, were the ancient customary gifts: the Tai, king of fishes, the cask of purified saké, the hemp, incense, seaweed. There also was the bride's elaborate trousseau, including many a Parisian gown. Throughout the house sprawled electricity, plumbing. And further, Prince and Princess had gone to live in their very own home, not in the old fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess is not of imperial blood which formerly would have made her unfit for the Prince's hand. For these reasons and because they...
...companies have made money since the War. Cost of equipment and wages has gone up; motor cars have decoyed passengers and, by crowding thoroughfares, have increased cost of running cars...