Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family seemed to have been reduced pretty permanently to two. What Washington wondered was: where will they go, now that he has but to beckon for a lordly income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that it was the two-family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established, by the People they have served, in a setting of suitable...
...America cannot live on prosperity alone...
...William Orpen, critics snarled at him for selecting "ugly subjects." Disregarding the absurd grounds for their quarrel, the critics were probably wrong. Painter John was not disturbed at their objections. He became a teacher of art at the Liverpool University School of Art from which he soon disappeared to live among gypsies while painting pictures of them...
...last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose history may be found in any copy of Who's Who. He lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter, who had read too much, oh, far too much! Sherlock Holmes, conceived the brilliant idea of visiting my home (I live in an old remodeled dwelling of many apartments) and checking up on the names in the mail boxes. There he found...