Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where roses and strawberries can be had in any month, where trade winds keep the temperature between 70 degrees and 80 degrees day in and out, where life is so easy that the per capita wealth is higher than anywhere in the world, Hawaii is not boasting much when it calls itself "Paradise." Many are the other U. S. executives who may well envy Governor Judd...
...Keep It Clean. It has become customary in revues to have a comedian wittily announce the scenes in advance. If he predicts that they will be stupid, the audience may laugh. But if they are stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group...
...should have remembered in the heat of their unbridled illicit intercourse that Mother Nature does not know how to discriminate in the production of offspring." Pointing squarely at the politicians who fanned the fire, the Courier predicted: "In 1932 they will be parading Mrs. De Priest's photograph to keep the South solid, Democratic and undefiled...
...farmer is growing less grain than he can, because: 1) he cannot buy anything with the money he gets from his grain, and 2) the Government is levying heavy grain taxes upon him by forcing him to sell most of his crop at a low Government-fixed price (to keep the price of bread within the means of urban workers and to net the Government a profit on its exports). The fact that there is more grain planted this year is due not to peasant efforts but to State farms and co-operatives inaugurated by the Government to combat...
Nicholas Roerich, now 55, migrated to the U. S. eight years ago. In Russia he was painter, archaeologist, linguist, mystic of repute. He hoped that Beauty and Art would bring Oriental and Occidental cultures together and keep the earth forever at peace. The War and Russian turbulences balked him. So he went to the U. S. to find money, without which not even religion can spread. His reputation, which neither the U. S., British, German or French Who's Who yet record, went ahead of him to a few artists and mystics. They formed a circle which widened. Money...