Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prodigious sum of one billion and eighty million acres" of public domain (about one-half the present size of the U. S.). Prophetically he exclaimed: "Long after we shall cease to be agitated by the Tariff, the public lands will remain a subject of deep and enduring interest...
Flicker. In the interest of another kind of dancing came Roger MacEwan, a dance-master of Glasgow and London. He too brought a new dance, his own invention, called the "Oxford" and consisting of four variants of the fox trot and tango. Included in his suite was a thing called the "flicker" which he said was the rage in London. Obligingly he "flicked" for the 80 delegates. Pointing a well-shod toe, taking a step forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing...
...fifty-seventh council and the tenth annual assembly of the League of Nations got under way at Geneva last week with world interest focused almost solely on the newest one of the eight prime ministers present...
...Author Maurois wrote Ariel: The Life of Shelley. Thereafter interest in the "new" human biography did not dwindle. When Author Maurois recreated another life, that of Disraeli, more copies of it sold in the U. S. than of any other non-fiction book...
...Although dance-hall supervision is necessary, the dance-hall situation cannot be remedied unless those in charge of the enforcement of the laws can secure the interest and support of the public...