Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortnight ago Director William H. Allen of the New York Institute of Public Service petitioned New York's Governor Roosevelt to remove Mayor Walker from office on the ground of incompetency. Playfully temporized the Governor: "I have received so many letters in the last few days asking for the removal of every public official from the President of the U. S. down to, dog, catcher that it will take me a few days to read them...
...talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most Englishmen utterly impossible. Yet soon the 2,000,000 readers of London's Daily Mail learned that " 'Hell and Maria' Dawes roared* as if he were on parade ground. While his audience sat silent, mesmerized, and almost embarrassed ... he shattered the ancient and peaceful atmosphere of Vintners' Hall and kept Lord Derby and Lord Riddell (who sat on either side of him) dodging his crashing fists...
Pleasure Crazed (Fox). This finely made but curiously colorless picture is an example of the talkie producers' fumbling to find a middle ground between stage and cinema. It attempts no broad effects, no cardinal emotions. Its plot, involving a novelist whose wife is unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful...
...Gillicuddy) 66-year-old manager of the Athletics, just missed winning the pennant, probably lost it by starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative pitching from Pitchers Grove and Walberg, and good pitching from Pitchers Earnshaw and Quinn (Quinn is another relic of spitball days) he is far and apparently safely in the lead...
...that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream, as planned. The roar sent Worcester ambulances and police hunting for tragedy. They found Professor Goddard and assistants inquisitively studying his rocket shell, which had landed near...