Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italians, Premier, Mussolini may seem a little ill-at-ease in his new role of champion of peace and quiet, but the native sons realize that it is another proof of his profoundly sympathetic nature. When a proposal was made recently to motorize the gondolas of Venice, Mussolini said nothing, but when little Mariapia Cafagna of New York presented him with a petition of her own composition, signed by four hundred Americans, the superlative "human-interest" side of the thing pierced through his gruff exterior, and touched the great although little-known heart...
...individual states. They tell people who oppose it that their opposition arises from blindness to the blessings of Federal assistance. They predict bigger and better national education weeks, governmental eradication of illiteracy, substitution of the well-equipped district school (perhaps with motor transport for distant pupils) for the ill-equipped "little red schoolhouse." The dissenters are commonly said to be persons interested in private and parochial schools, persons suspicious of Federal "red tape," persons who believe that the various state educational departments are capable of performing their duties without increased Federal supervision and advice...
Seats. "If the Parent-Teacher Association should do nothing but provide more comfortable seats [hygienic, adjustable] for the school children of the Nation, it would more than justify its existence."-Mrs. B. F. Langivorthy, Winnetka, Ill., the Association's Vice President...
TIME Chicago, Ill...
...mysterious gold, ginny habits and a marked influence on Daisy. He was the lieutenant, of course, still swimming. That he never landed was due to Daisy's baffled withdrawal to the fleshly, marital mainland. Due also to Buchanan's disclosure that the mounds of gold were ill-got. Nonetheless, Yegg Gatsby remained Daisy's incorruptible dream, unpleasantly removed in person toward the close of the book by an accessory in oil-smeared dungarees...