Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STEPHEN FOSTER ALBUM: Why anyone could get enthusiastic about MASSA'S IN THE COLD COLD GROUND and OLD FOLKS AT HOME was rather more than we could see until we heard it. But consider! Directed by Nat Shilkert we have the REVELERS, PAUL ROBISON, the JUBILEE SINGERS, VAUGHN DE LEATH and the VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA, Gorgeous or chestration-one selection melting into another! A perfectly swell album-at six dollars...
Professor L. C. Graton resumes his duties after a year of inspecting deep mines and tunnels in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. He was sent by the Bureau of International Research to study the characteristics of ores which lie more than a mile below the ground, and the methods by which mines are constructed at such depths...
...seasons, two sources. From Telok Belong in Dutch East India are harvested each July between 10.000 and 24,000 tons of pepper seeds known as Lampong. Alleppy and Tellicherry pepper comes from India and is harvested in December. Before they are used for seasoning, the seeds are ground, packed in tin boxes, and given a label. But whether Lampong, Alleppy or Tellicherry vines bore it, whether bought in an exclusive delicatessen shop or in the Great Atlantic & Pacific tea store, no matter what the box or price, all pepper tastes alike...
...most preparatory schools yearly changes consist of a few new faces on the faculty and perhaps some broken ground for a building. Significant changes have generally remained subtle...
Georgian. Hariot Babyon affianced her flashing black beauty and fabulous fortune to her Cousin Jamie. But "she was a black woman on a red ground ... a sight he should have seen last year, on his tour, not now, home in safe sunny England." Terrified, he ran off with Menella, fair-haired handmaiden in "rose linen sprigged with small corn flowers and carnations." They swore to be true "till death us do part." Hariot's death, by her own jealous hand, did part them, and haunt them, till Jamie rode to his own frenzied death, and thus joined the siren...