Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince's Gate (once J. Pierpont Morgan's), began unpacking furniture. Early the next day Mr. Dawes decked himself in a morning coat, clapped a silk hat on his head, hustled to Paddington Station, where British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson stood stiffly awaiting. Mr. Dawes grabbed his hand, said something to make him smile, hustled into a train for Windsor to present his credentials to the King. No predecessor had ever done this so soon after his arrival...
...grabbing attempts." Placed in active charge of the committee's work was Andrew Ford, onetime managing editor of the New York Telegram. With a corps of assistants he was to examine and investigate the publicity releases of should-be advertisers, to weed out the real news from the "hand-outs." After weeding, weekly warnings will be sent to all Association members, to all newspaperdom. Whenever possible, Weeder Ford will scotch unworthy publicity schemes at their sources. First a few "offenders" were singled out to be mentioned, and then the list grew and grew until it seemed to include most...
...Champagne, on the other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
...water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result in preserving his three friends in turn and possibly also the British Empire. The last...
Joshua Crane of Brookline, Mass., used a putter with a 15-inch shaft, accurately, with only one hand...