Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Older U. S. citizens, people who read their newspapers more carefully, repeated the name top. "Francis Scott McBride? Francis Scott McBride?" they said. "Do you suppose that he is a descendant of Francis Scott Key, who wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Paul Jordan Smith has written Nomad, Cables of Cobweb. This month he waits publication of his newest book, The Key to Ulysses. Also, he is editing and interpreting Robert Burton's Anatomy of Mel- ancholy. ?Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), was a painter whose art was inspired by the primitive in nature, modified by a theory of sym- bolism in form, color, design. He declared that only in Tahiti, whither he retired, could he find proper stimulation for his work. His enthusiasm for the picturesque South Seas was shared by his good friend, Robert Louis Stevenson...
When the melon came last Christmas it measured forty percent. Investors appreciated him. His business predictions based on his own key industry were invariably worded as cheerfully as possible. Biographers praised him after they had penetrated the colorless exterior of a man who, to promote the impersonal ends of a vast and complex organization, submerged his own personality. After he moved to Manhattan he collected art, raised fine cattle, went to the opera. But just before he left Wheaton, Ill., to be head of the Federal Corp., a friend found him sitting with his hunting coat...
...Hearst's motives in these things have often been suspected. His good results in some of them have not been questioned. His unfailing eye for sensational ? news when the Little Man of the People is belabored by the Big Men of the Interests has been an uncanny key to newspaper success...
...speed, speed!" he said. "That is the key which shall unlock all the knowledge to us."to as he sped off to a conclusion which left science far behind...