Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice-Presidential motor proved to be incredibly small. All told the audience that assembled numbered scarcely 200. The Evanstonians had, apparently, slipped off golfing, bathing, picknicking, rubbernecking that day, or were all sleeping late. The Vice President was vexed, and Mayor Bartlett, too. They scowled at the paltry assemblage, left the speakers' stand without a syllable, drove home...
...Governor Zimmerman, prodigal, visited President Coolidge at Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Governor Zimmerman, candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic régime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about the Oil Scandals...
...Isaiah Bowman, Col. Claude Hale Birdseye, Samuel W. Boggs, erudite scientists, left for the International Geographic Congress at London with one burning purpose : "To prepare a map of the world with a scale of 16 miles to the inch." Their ship, the Leviathan, celebrated its sixth anniversary crossing...
Pilot Drew flew the Fokker back to Croyden, where it was temporarily held, by order of the British Air Ministry. Pilot Drew went out on the tugboat Lady Brassy and peered at mocking Channel wavelets. Pilot Drew left the Lady Brassy and entrained for Brussels...
...PLAINS OF ABRAHAM-James Oliver Curwood-Doubleday Doran ($2). All that Robert W. Chambers has left unread or unsaid of colorful records concerning the Canadian Northwest, the late James Oliver Curwood has supplemented. Noble youth Jeems, son of a true French Canadian woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along...