Word: howelis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Are the legs of Vassar and Wellesley ladies longer or shorter than those of Smith College students? Is physical exercise more prevalent at Vassar and Wellesley than Smith, and if so how many millimeters larger are the calves of these young ladies than their rivals at Smith?
Thus the fate of the Milwaukee. Old lake sailors described how, when a car ferry is pitched by high-running combers, the freight cars break from their clamps. On the Milwaukee were 27 loaded cars. Back and forth they must have creaked and strained, bolted and battered, gaining momentum until...
"How well you look this morning. What a fine overcoat! If I had one like that I'd go to the theatre tonight! . . . Look at all these letters, they are mostly from women, if they could see me now they wouldn't fall in love with me, would...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil...
According to a Court functionary, His Majesty ignored everything but the fairy tales, pounced on the big book, retreated to an armchair, buried his nose. Soon, perhaps, Boy-King Mihai was reading the story of Dwarf-King Gleamlet, getting ideas about Kingship from the tale of how Royal Gleamlet dealt...