Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twenty-first page of TIME, Aug. 5 there is a the reference to Ambassador Dawes as a lawyer. I would like to be corrected if I am mistaken, but I am under the impression that he is a banker, well known in Chicago financial circles...
...Whether Brazilian editors knew it or not. Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press...
...uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake but for the seal's. That is why she accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things tend to alienate Jason. They make...
Such is the latest story of unpredictable Novelist Hughes. None too well told, it seems like a true story he heard somewhere and wrote out to prove the axiom about Truth & Fiction...
...there was graduated from the East Orange, N. J., High School one John Osborn Reid, 19, interested in science and planning to go to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what the daily press...