Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he visited Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, at his Chicago home. He walked around the private Lasker golf links but swung no club. Newsmen asked him why he did not play. "I don't like golf," replied the Vice President who likes to watch horse-racing...
...discovers that "love ... is what we feel for a person whose actions seem rather to arouse our jealousy." If Albertine arouses her "darling Marcel's" jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been...
There is no argument but that the game has changed since "Home Run" Baker mad? his name by knocking 12 homeruns during the season of 1913. "Babe" Ruth knocked 60 in 1927. Young Outfielder Klein had hit 29 this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs...
...Boston, Mrs. James F. Norris, wife of a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entered her home, found the living room topsy-turvy, her husband's bedroom locked. She called police who broke open the bedroom door. On Prof. Norm's bed lay John Broderick, burglar, with an open volume of Shakespeare and two empty quart bottles of 1911 Green River whisky...
...American Institutes of Electrical Engineers, of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and American Society for Testing Materials, the Committee in 1919 expanded its membership to include U. S. Departments of War, Navy and Commerce. More members were added until in 1928 there were 37 member bodies. In March the American Home Economics Society was admitted to membership...