Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...
...Fall also talked about his famed lie of 1923-his letter to the Senate saying that Publisher McLean and not Oilman Doheny had "loaned" him $100,000. He named Senator Reed Smoot, onetime Senator Irvine L. Lenroot and a Harding Cabinet Member as the persons who had advised him to write the lying letter. Senators Smoot and Lenroot were quick to deny having anything to do with the letter...
...improvement organizations and business clubs, explained to them his plan of a big-improvement -parade -every -other -week until Christmas. Said he: "Holding parades is the only way we can attract the attention of the public to what we are doing. The papers never boost us; they always lie...
...their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded as an incentive to lawful matrimony; never was it considered in the least immoral. Later, however, the game was regarded as a trifle vulgar: from the latter part of the 18th Century it suffered a gradual decline...