Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achieve funny and ridiculous positions. In making my curtain calls with my partner after our burlesque number we achieve an added effect by my flying exits into the wings. It the stage manager has had an attack of absent mindedness and is conspicuous by his being away, I either land up against the wall or in a heap on the floor...
...White House and contribute much to the prestige of the Administration." Conference delegates also heard Miss Majorie Webster discuss "How to Develop Personality"; Miss Ella May Powell on "Music, the World's New Refuge"; and saw a religious pageant with authentic Biblical costumes from the Holy Land...
Property damage was beyond, estimate. Millions of acres of cotton land were under water, with the flood moving on the "sugar bowl" section of Louisiana from which comes much of the nation's sugar...
...Titano, just above the Borgo, the two Capitani Reggenti (Regents) and the 60 Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
...Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved...