Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goose Woman, from Rex Beach's story of that name, was an opera star before her baby's birth withered her voice. By the time he has grown up, she is keeping geese and drinking gin in a smelly old shack. She hates him for her obscurity, impedes his business success and tries to muddle his marriage. Then he is charged with murder and at the last moment mother love conquers all. Louise Dresser gives an exceptionally good performance in another one you will probably like...
...announced that U. S. mints are stamping out gold coins at the rate of a million dollars a day. The law requires that gold certificates in circulation must be represented to a third of their value by actually minted coins. The circulation of gold certificates has grown...
...certain type of successful small boy there is observed a spirit that cannot brook the presence of a tall tree in front or back yard until he has shinned to its topmost crotch. Among grown men, the same intolerance is manifest where parties of them scramble for the pinnacles of high mountains...
Modern Italian Art. "Italian Art has grown rapidly in importance. . . . Not only will Italy be represented by such of its more widely known men as Tito and Mancini, but by others of the younger school . . . Casorati and Carona . . . and Romagnoli, who won the second prize at the Carnegie Institute last year...
...corn crop is greater in value than any other grown in this country. About 40% is fed to swine on the farms, while horses get 20% and cattle about 15%. Of the remaining 25%, humans consume about...