Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation...
...Since you have lectured me and quoted Holy Writ for the good of my soul, I reciprocate in the spirit of a sincere desire to help you by suggesting that you restudy the entire Ten Commandments, as those Heaven-given precepts have been vastly useful in the past in creating and preserving good order in civil society. I have seen with a considerable degree of satisfaction your vigorous action against the gamblers and their camp followers, the prostitutes and bootleggers, up Saratoga way since some of us began prodding into your 'record'; though I regret that some...
...Gulf Stream, swiftest moving and best studied of ocean currents, however, loses comparatively little of its heat at Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...
When the deal had been made public, when the Standard Union had carried polite letters of congratulation from the country's celebrities, Publisher Block gave a theatre party. He bought out the house for a performance of George White's "Scandals," and asked his friends to help celebrate. Among the guests were Polar Pilgrim Byrd, Aviatrix Earhart, Mauler Dempsey. Both the purchase and the party were typical of Publisher Block...
...Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they are married, Dr. Lloyd becomes greedy for native pearls. He lights a beacon, hoping to attract a passing ship to help him loot the village. Then he repents, but dastardly Pearl Trader Sebastian has seen the beacon. Sebastian and his crew ravage the island, leaving behind them the white men's shadows-lust, liquor, disease, greed. Dr. Lloyd is killed while trying to defend his race...