Word: hering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition-Here a split. Wet Republicans insisted that they hoped to see "the experiment noble in motive" worked out "constructively" by Hoover and that "constructively" would mean "liberally," i.e., modification. Dry Republicans approved the words of Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League of America, whose election proclamation...
Stretched eastward from Manhattan in the shape of a candle-flame, lies Long Island. Here, in a country made for pleasure, live socially-minded persons who dart to their diversions along concealed and crooked trails, inserted through the woods or strewn upon the shore. Their houses, lying between hills or...
Other clients, who desired to make ambitious and tangible presents, were dissuaded by the architects who suggested a more practical scheme. In pursuance of this scheme Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party...
There she became the Great Jeritza to a gay, music-loving Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created...
The Legend of Gosta Berling, made in Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by...