Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half burying itself. The corpses were mangled almost beyond recognition. All, save Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination was dismissed...
...Pinna's? But there are other leading schools; where the fellows dress just as well as any clothes from De Pinna's. How would De Pinna's like it if I put an advertisement calling Brooks and Rogers Peet the "leading clothing stores" in New York? I guess Brooks and Rogers Peet could quote figures on numbers of suits sold that would make De Pinna look pretty sick. Just as I could quote football scores that wouldn't read so well as the "leading 'prep' schools of the East...
...much for ways and means. The best general advice that can be given to a Freshman at this moment is to try the examinations on Saturday, guess at the probable outcome with a rather pessimistic attitude, and arrange his course so as to meet some part of the requirements this year. If the outcome of the examinations is contrary to his expectations, he has until October 10 to drop or add courses free of charge...
...Middle West be scorned, says Mr. Noyes, for it was Lincoln's home. And Detroit, though England would never guess it, lets more marine tonnage through her gates than any other port in the World. Dallas, unheard of in musical England, is familiar to Kreisler and Paderewski. Hollywood is actually a very minor adjunct to Los Angeles and "the most successful makers of temporal happiness in the world today" are by no means limited to cinema, chewing gum and flivvers...
...Lewis articles gained wide notice in the U. S. Editors-envied the Evening Post its coup. Foreign correspondents outwardly echoed the sentiments of the Evening Post's Miss Thompson in Berlin, who said to Super-Reporter Lewis with mock grudging: "I guess it's all right, but it does seem a rather long way of saying, as I could, 'Flew to Vienna. Quiet...