Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington alone of more than one million dollars annually. It is estimated that the government is paying rentals of twenty million dollars in the nation. True economy would be effected by the erection of Federal buildings, especially in the numerous instances where sites acquired many years ago have been left vacant because the administration did not desire to have these expenditures appear in the budget. It is not economy to refuse to spend money and to have our soldiers living in barracks which the Chief of Staff of the Army recently stated were indecent and below the standard...
...hotly than ever their belief that the treaty was conceived in partisan politics and baptised with U. S. hypocrisy. ¶Mrs. Coolidge shopped in Superior for a pair of bedroom slippers. One of her red ones had been chewed up by Rob Roy.* That old collie had inadvertently been left in the Brule bedroom while the Coolidge family watched a cinema on the dining room porch. Mrs. Coolidge, kind, told reporters how she had later caught Rob Roy under the bed, but had lacked the heart to chastise him with the un-chewed red slipper...
...censor. It was not toned down much. A Cross was visible in lecherous episodes and Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor of the performance and the oily excesses of the actors made Elmer Gantry an exciting, though phoney, melodrama...
Another pick-up was that of the Polish flyers, Kasimir Kubala and Louis Idzikowski, 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, Spain, by the German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec...
Jack Dempsey, conqueree of Gene Tunney, left the realm of sock for the Manhattan world of buskin last week. With his wife, Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, he began rehearsing The Big Fight, drama. David Belasco will lend a directing hand. Said Dempsey: "The regular actors won't need to take to cover for a while...