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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal prisons containing 8,516 inmates June, 1925 (latest census), were crowded. Penitentiaries are at Atlanta, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and McNeil's Island, Wash.; Naval prisons at Boston, Portsmouth, N. H. and Mare Island, Calif...
...sign outside the store advises the passers by that helmets are the latest style, but, although fow have been observed about the Square, it is to be assumed that purchasers are keeping their headgear in their rooms...
Vachel Lindsay's latest lyrics come close to that theme, play with it a bit, and then reject it with whole-hearted aversion. To his mind, which delights in parable, analogue, and symbol, the monotonous measure of progress is anathema. In the words of the mixed blood, whose thoughts and fancies are the subject of the poems, one reads the theme of the collection...
...doing this is very simple. He gets his building money from rich men, who are more than glad to get 5% certain earnings on their investments. With this cheap construction money he puts up apartments that rent, on the average, for $2.53 a room a week. In the latest buildings each apartment has electric lights and private bath. In older constructions, lacking these conveniences, the average rent is $1.99 a room a week. The tenants pay their rent promptly. One year, when total rentals were $826,483, only $18 remained unpaid. During the generation that the City & Suburban Homes...
...result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts the faker's delicious dancer (Jobyna Ralston). Latest Lloyd laughables: a "grinning" stork; laundry on a kite string; amorous tree-climbing; a monkey in a man's shoes; synthetic dishwashing; ringtoss with life-preservers to capture the villain, upend him, paddle him ashore with a broom...