Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last splintered fragment fell, Citizen Morren waved his pick at the huge crowd and helplessly irate police below, crying: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We Belgians are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating] Ladeuze...
Last week General Adolfo de la Huerta, once for a brief time Provisional President of Mexico, now in bitter exile at Los Angeles, Calif., said: "I lament the passing of Obregon, because I would have liked to have had him live long enough to pay for his many sins...
...stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly at the window while he signed some papers...
...women, sprinters, jumpers, pole vaulters, hurdlers, shot putters, hammer throwers, wrestlers, oarsmen, swimmers, divers, gymnasts, fencers, yachtsmen, horsemen, cyclists, boxers, officials, etc., etc., boarded the Roosevelt, planned to live aboard the liner until its return August 19. With the U. S. Olympic team went three athletes, not team members, crossing as stowaways. Famed Sprinter Frank Hussey hid in a bathtub, was removed to the brig, ransomed by friends on board...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...