Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reason: "The only possible line of immediate advance for American politics...
...Even Mr. Smith's plan of personal liberty and States' rights and State local option while perfectly sound Democratic doctrine is not in line with modern thought in sumptuary legislation. The people of the United States have passed the strictly States' rights construction period and there have always been definite limitations on personal liberty. Our country has developed from a federation of loosely linked States into a closely knit nation. The Constitution has given the Federal Government the right to legislate for the nation on the liquor question and the Federal Government probably will continue to possess...
...grandiose ambitions natives of this district owe their emergence from obscurity to empire. To the renowned beauty of the imperial princesses of his line they owe the foreign alliances which for centuries secured their independence. But to the topography of their country they owe most. This plateau, sloping to the southeastern angle of the Black Sea, is cut off from the rest of Asia Minor by a barrier of rugged mountains, blessing it with political and climatic isolation. Rarely above 88° in summer or below 10° in winter, the weather, humid, temperate, contrasts with that of not distant...
...dark. David Belasco, Lee Shubert and his brother Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready for the stage. Having already supplied Broadway with the first success of the season, The Front Page, he stated erroneously that...
...Moler brought his riding-crop down upon the shoulders of Rival-Jockey Fisher. Though no jockey may be penalized if in the frenzy of the home stretch he thwacks his mount, he shall be punished if caught in the act of thwacking a competing jockey. Moler passed the finish line ahead of his rival but was disqualified for striking him: the race went to Fisher...