Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came the Civil War, "a white gash." Lincoln, a man of full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom...
Fully equal now in height to the average pedestrian, stands the Cambridge policeman whose duty it is to guide the destinies of foot and vehicular traffic in Harvard Square. For, in unparallelled magnanimity and broadness of mind, those powers which exist in the Cambridge constabulary have produced a clean white enclosure and set it up opposite the Rotunda...
...pharmacy at Columbia University, said that in this country in the last year more than 4,000,000 persons had their hair died. He denied that the use of cosmetics was vanity, and said that such use contributed to the highest civilization. He said Rome was at the height of her civilization when she used cosmetics more than we do today, and that in the dark ages cosmetics were little used." --Boston Herald...
Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week's war scare in the Belgian Parliament (see INTERNATIONAL) to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments. While this propaganda was at its height, he announced to the Chamber that the first important measure to be presented by the Cabinet during the present session (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) will be a bill appropriating several billion francs for armaments and fortification of the Franco-German and Franco-Italian frontiers. Marshal Foch, appearing before the Chamber in full uniform, declared...
...from the floor, vaulted over it. In so doing he had broken the world's record for indoor pole-vaulting, 13 ft. 8¼ in., held by Charles Hoff, doubtful amateur of Norway. Excited gentlemen in dinner jackets rushed forward, raised the stick to a height of 14 ft. ¼ in., urged Sabin Carr to break the outdoor record (13 ft. 11¼ in., also held by Mr. Hoff). Mr. Carr tried, could not oblige...