Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest that Congress ought to pass a resolution memorializing Colonel Lindbergh not again to risk the hazards of the air or the perils of the sea, but to devote his life to leadership in America in the development of aircraft and in continuing before the young manhood of America that compelling inspiration w'hich his great example has already been...
...happens that I am killed doing these things, I'm willing to make the sacrifice. But for the present there is no cause for worry. From now on until further notice I am in retirement. I need a rest in private life and am going...
...within a year. This will be the scene of Olympic games dedicated to the drawing up of a convention to "adopt obligatory arbitration . . . with the minimum exceptions." Exaggerating as only a great statesman can, Mr. Hughes described the promulgation of this recommendation as marking "the happiest day of my life...
...adventurous and inquisitive Provincetown Playhouse tucked darkly away in downtown Manhattan has made another rabid experiment. One Michael Swift, distressed at many phases of U. S. life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world...
PORGY-Exciting, sometimes unlovely inspection of chattering Negro life along the Charleston water front (TIME...