Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Square a scattered crowd of Dowager Ladies, shop clerks and students waved their hats and handkerchiefs, shouted, "Speach." The nominee would not speak. The cars moved on. Into the line of march darted a small car bearing across its windshield "Al Smith." Loud were the cheers, and long...
...Borah, who was sent to boom in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. He, too, used Prohibition projectiles chiefly. There was a noticeable departure from the close reasoning, which usually marks the Borah manner. Perhaps because he felt that understanding diminishes and emotion increases below the Mason-Dixon line, Senator Borah voiced phrases and protestations such as the following...
Early in 1920 Beatrice Gladys Lillie wed Sir Robert and three days before Christmas gave birth to Robert, still her only child. His destiny is to head the Peel line and inherit 10,000 acres. Shortly his irrepressible mother will open in Manhattan as the star of Noel Coward's This Year of Grace, London's superhit revue of the season...
Some three centuries after Macbeth's death, King Robert II of Scotland begot a daughter from Elizabeth Mure (first mistress, later queen), married the girl to doughty John Lyon, gave him Glamis Castle. Thence the House of Bowes-Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
...Moneypenny. Perhaps it was the purpose of this play that, after seeing it, one should go out among the trees, drink buttermilk, nibble roots and herbs, renounce money as "the root of all evil" (a line in the play). This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue...