Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once an intrepid bobsledder and a skilled toboggan steersman. The present twelvemonth, 1929, is his "Jubilee year"-the 50th since he first celebrated Mass-and therefore devout Catholics hoped, last week, that by next Christmas the "Prisoner of the Vatican" will be released and restored to an athletic life...
...Virginia team of the 4-H Club won a judging contest. The 4-H Club ("head, heart, hands and health") is an organization of boys and girls fostered by the Department of Agriculture to encourage an interest in farm life. The judging contest is a contest in which the members of the 4-H Club handed their opinions of fowl to the real judges...
...industry are invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner join the association, he would probably soon be informed that higher prices were to be charged for dyeing and cleaning, but that the association...
...Lady of Chance. Cinema racketeers and crooks, sensitive to a waning interest in their mode of life, have shown in recent films a happy tendency to satirize themselves. Love is all they take seriously now, and they may even change their attitude about that for the better. Norma Shearer, at least, outwitting Lowell Sherman, a rival racketeer, or finding out that the fellow she wants to gyp is not as rich as she hoped, provides an entertaining hour...
...Strange Case of Lena Smith. A series of patient, beautifully photographed and slightly academic incidents record the suffering which life lays bit by bit upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef...