Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel. But isn't it a bit undignified, even for a President...
...Powerful forces -premeditated and unpremeditated-are at work for a union of the two great nations of the American continent. United States capital isn't the least of these factors. More than ?500,000,000 of American money now is invested in the Dominion; and it is expected that, before 1925 is out, another ?100,000,000 may be added...
Pretty rabid talk, isn't it ? You would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...
...Bryan's colloquey at Brown resulted from his failure to answer a question submitted by George E. Cassidy of the class of 1926. The question was: 'Isn't it possible that there may be a philosophy gained by evolutionary thinking which presents a worship and reverence for future generations as an ideal and looks toward the development of Heaven upon earth through the use of science: and is not this ideal a fine and worthy one, capable of producing an equally noble standard of morality...
...Nazimova has turned from her task of playing fluffy-headed harlots to the impersonation of an old Portuguese. But she isn't such a very old woman. Two handsome men fall fearfully in love with her. But she is chiefly occupied with her wandering boy who involves himself with a flapper and steals a diamond necklace...