Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatly pleased to find in TIME, Aug. 5, your comments on the dismissal of George Lloyd as High Commissioner of Egypt...
...High were the hopes of a little group of men who last week journeyed to Washington, politely presented themselves at the White House office, asked for five minutes of President Hoover's time. Secretary George Akerson eyed them sharply, asked who they were, what they wanted. They explained: they represented a national association opposed to blue laws. Leading them was Spencer M. de Golier, thrice Mayor of Bradford, Pa., Vice President of N. A. O. B. L. They had read about how a delegation of the Lord's Day Alliance had called last month upon President Hoover to urge...
Secretary Akerson told them to return next day. They did, to find no appointment with the President ready for them. The third day was like the second, the fourth like the third. Plainly President Hoover would not see them. In high dudgeon they left Washington. Mayor de Golier exclaimed: "I am deeply disappointed. . . . Discrimination...
...health of the prisoners has been excellent, especially when one takes into consideration the overcrowded condition of the Institution. At one time we had as high as 500 men sleeping in the corridors . . . after all cell and dormitory space had been filled. . . .";?Report of the warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., July...
...husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among the members of High Society. Billie Dove, beautifully dressed, dark-eyed, slightly abstracted, seems only remotely concerned with it. Silliest shot: frustrated Rod La Rocque smashing a huge bowl ornamented with mermaids in action...