Word: lockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flapper but would like to correspond with men and women between the ages of 25 and 32." Fat Nellie Wallace wrote that in Tchula, Miss.; lonely Joe Sleet read it in El Paso, in the advertising columns of a magazine. He wrote to Nellie Wallace and sent her a lock of hair. That was ten months...
...William K. Vanderbilt (nee Anne Harriman), while cruising on her yacht last week, received a wireless message saying that her Paris house had been robbed. She prepared to return to the seat of the mystery. The Vanderbilt governess had discovered the lock of the servants' entrance forced open, when she arrived at the house early one morning. On the kitchen table were scattered miniatures with their valuable settings ripped off and a chain of room keys which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked...
Seemingly no one reflected that there were at least four men in the Loewenstein Fokker or attached importance to the fact that the lock on the door was found broken...
...advantages of this plan are enumerated by its author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present...
...well worn button, a lock of hair, a bit of bedraggled gold braid, and a wedding ring-such are four relics beyond price which were presented to the Japanese Empire, last week at Tokyo, by the U. S. Ambassador, that puissant, cultured and droopy -mustached Manhattan lawyer Charles MacVeigh...