Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people have the eminently desirable virtue of being amusing--the combination forming a nice evidence of the author's talent. Their conversation crackles with a verve that is seldom actually attained on Wall or Main or Maple Street, though, in truth, the whole book is pitched in that vivid key, kindly reserved by Providence for fiction...
Francis Xavier Schwab, genial mayor of Buffalo, met austere Producer David Belasco for the first time last week, at the tryout of Belasco's The Big Fight (in which Pugilist Jack Dempsey is a star). The mayor, pleased, told his chauffeur to go out and get a gold key to the city. This done, Mayor Schwab solemnly said: "I present this key as a mark of esteem from Buffalo and hope, Mr. Belasco, that you will return here countless times with premieres of your matchless plays." Solemnly, Producer Belasco answered: "It is always a pleasure to come to Buffalo...
...guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...
Edward of Wales, it appeared, had been told that workpeople employed by Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago for 50 years receive a key by means of which they can admit themselves to lavatories otherwise reserved for executives...
...editor of the Overland Mail is Alfred Pittman, no near relation of Senator Key Pittman of Nevada...