Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flag, my new land, I salute thee...
...Slips. Finance Minister Alberto J. Pani, said to be the only member of the Calles Cabinet whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers, had his resignation accepted last week. For months he has been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last...
...wondered why, while they were about it, newsgatherers had not invented a Moses of Mousedom, leading his people to a promised land and handing down commandments nibbled upon a pebble. Or an Alexander, weeping mousily when there were no more ranches to conquer. Or some evidence that it had rained mice, or that the rodents were from Mars, or?since a mouse running from beneath a woman's skirt used to be regarded as a symbol of unchastity?that the mouse army was a portentous sign of the times...
...land, located near the top of the Mountain, is famous due to the fact that it has never been cut over...
Backstage in "Sunny" land at the Colonial his life endangered by a maze of ropes, "props" and the frantic haste of Herculean property men constructing the "S. S. Triumphant", his wits distracted by the Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails rushing from the spotlight to their respective dressing rooms and the thunderous applause of a Saturday makinee audience, a panicky. Crimson reporter tried to follow the witticisms of Jack Donahue, famous for his funny feet...