Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best brands always ready to enjoy with his friends. The appointment of Percy Marks was terminated before the publication of The Plastic Age. Neither Chinese nor Negroes are numerous at Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce was one of the leading scholars in his class. You ought to know better than to suppose that the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. are conferred for postgraduate work. Instead of merely receiving these honorary degrees from his own university...
Various phases of the life of the Germans will be presented, in order to acquaint students with the situation existing in the land about which they are studying. The meeting is open to the University...
Representatives.-The chairmen of the Congressional Committees-Indiana's Will R. Wood (Republican) and Arkansas's Will A. Oldfield (Democrat)-each predicted, as a matter of course, that their partisans throughout the land would win or retain enough seats to control the U. S. House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism...
...importance of these three flights cannot be overestimated. Although ocean flights are undeniably more romantically spectacular they are scarcely more perilous, and, certainly at the present moment, hardly as important to the advancement of practical aviation. Commercial flying must continue for.a while to be chiefly over land...
...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...