Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their elation at finding such an issue for the coming campaign, the Democrats at once found Coolidge, Mellon, Hughes and Hoover full of the sin of omission, for the kept silence about conditions when they must have been aware of them. For a counter-attack the best the Republicans have been able to do is to make an ineffectual attempt to implicate Al Smith in the mesh, at the same time maintaining that none of the guilty ones are in the party at present and that they are not liable for the sins of their predecessors. But the genie...
...times she wandered off into Arabia on a quest for pure joy. "Can you picture," she cries, "the singular beauty of these moonlight departures! The frail Arab tents falling one by one . . . dark masses of the kneeling camels . . . shrouded figures . . ." These things lured Gertrude Bell into desert lands and kept her prowling there, writing books on archeology, writing others on the land & people which British officers later conned furiously as they set sail to fight the Near Eastern campaigns of the World...
...alternately with a red card, and with a blue card. With the red card came, always, food in a food box. With the blue card came the food box but no food. After a while, the food box was removed to a distant corner. Red and blue cards kept flashing before Old Lady's eyes. When the blue card flashed, Old Lady gazed at it in polite boredom and went on quietly with her toilet. They couldn't fool her. But when the blue card disappeared and the red card showed, Old Lady's eyes gleamed...
There were no startling changes during the first few days of the Moore regime. Photographs of girls with their legs crossed and dresses barely covering the hips continued to appear on the front pages; Elinor Glyn kept on writing about "It;" Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary ran along in pictorial form so that no gum-chewer could miss the point. In the Mirror were photographs of a Negro and a white baby, "brought together by fate" at the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. The Negro infant got the caption...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...