Word: kindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mutinies trouble the ship on the seas; there are no primitive struggles of man and woman, man and elements, in the Jack London tradition. Of course there is a storm, but it is not the shipwrecking kind; and on shore, there is a native chief who falls in love with Miss Cooper, but he is practical rather than masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that...
...Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier considering suggestions than issuing orders. 2) Not for many a year will the rank & file of the Army have known a Secretary so much of their own kind...
...Declared Miss Gail Laughlin. Maine legislator: "There may be too much lobbying going on in Washington, but there is not nearly enough of the right kind." She urged more lobbying for the "20th Amendment" (equality of the sexes in all things before...
Under the special definition and with the leadership of Dr. Frederick Madison Allen, 50, who as a Rockefeller Institute man introduced fasting or undernutrition as a treatment of diabetes, a new kind of specializing hospital is developing in the U. S.-physiatric hospitals. All general hospitals of course treat the metabolic disorders. Dr. Allen was the first to set up a special shop, the Physiatric Institute, in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's onetime mansion at Morristown, N. J. That was in 1920. Since then two of his pupils have branched off-Frederick S. Modern, 32, at Arrowhead Springs...
Young, intelligent, fatally beautiful, Diana von Wassilko is the kind of girl who gives and goes. In her coolly amorous passage through the social high spots of Europe, she has many calls on her generosity. When the story opens, she has just left one lover, an unripe Viennese poet, after an idyllic two weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer...