Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...
...renew the anti-smuggling treaty with Mexico which expired during the week. Mexicans feared this announcement was a hint that the U. S. intends to cancel its embargo preventing the shipment of arms into Mexico, if the Mexican Government does not yield in the matter of allegedly confiscatory land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926 et seq.). If the embargo is lifted a revolution in Mexico would probably follow. In any case it will be easier to smuggle liquids and solids into the U. S. from Mexico from...
...numerous that luxurious Cunard liner Aurania, 14,000 tons, lying at her dock, became an ephemeral hostelry at a, guinea "and up" per bunk, thus saving many an onlooker from a damp night on the moors or pub floors. The morning brought black skies, torrential rains. Sporting Eng land, drenched, excited, gathered at the famed Aintree course; issued 150,000 prayers for better weather; surveyed the soggy turf and swollen streams with misgivings: hoped their favorites liked...
...state university in the land has a more aristocratic tradition than Virginia. The sons of first Virginia families went there when their peers-in the north, south and west-were traveling away as they still do from their home state universities, to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Virginia produced, as it still does, professional men almost exclusively-lawyers, doctors, architects, journalists. Few scions df the aristocracy-that-was became bank clerks, bondsellers, storekeepers. And if they were going to stay on the land, as gentlemen farmers, they did not go to college, unless it was to make friends and carouse. Martial...
...with those of 26 years ago, Mr. Bartlett declared, "The college men of today are a much cleverer bunch. But why should they not be? Their field of interests is wider than that of their predecessors. The rapid transportation of the day brings a far wider circle of the land within the easy reach of the students. They have, therefore, acquired a social culture considerably greater than the undergraduate of several decades...