Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is true, it is easy enough to understand, without the usual explanation: diplomatic ill-health. Myron T. Herrick will be 70 in October and his post is a trying one. He first served as Ambassador to Paris under President Taft, was again drafted for that post by President Wilson. Since 1921, Mr. Herrick has had only one leave of absence, which came last year. He is much attached to the Paris post, but of late it has been a severe tax on his strength, with the result that he has not been well. His resignation, if the reports...
...local pride and booster spirit." (Said he: "The booster spirit of the Far West is familiar to everyone." ) 2) "Greater attention to school news." 3) "Higher subscription prices." That the West learn from the East: 1) "More attention to the man who writes to the papers" (i.e., cinema, sport, health, politics, joke fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere are splendidly good." There are, obviously, exceptions to the rules thus laid down. What newspaper, save the Chicago Tribune, could "boost" its home town with more...
...various physical training schools as well. Because he invented and perfected most gymnastic apparatus in use in the U. S. today. Because of late he pioneered the field of athletics and sane body-building for women. Because, throughout his career, he served no end ulterior to his avowed one?health, fresh air, well-being...
...Astoria, L. I., an Italian was called to court by health officers for harboring his goat, Jack, in his cellar. Ordered to seek other pasturage, said the Italian: "Me no keepa da goat; me eata da goat...
...Newark, N. J., citizens complained that 100 vagrant goats had taken possession of the freight-yard district, butted the residents, overturned swill buckets, eaten clotheslines, rosebushes, awnings. Police, five dog-catchers, two Health Department Inspectors, Humane Society Agents, a squad of detectives geared out with lassos and dog-nets, harried the herd of whiskered miscreants, caught nine...