Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Long Island socialite, poloist, airman; at Reno...
...ways of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co. slid the liner Pennsylvania, biggest commercial vessel ever built in the U. S., constructed at a cost of $7,000,000 for the Panama Pacific Line (International Mercantile Marine). Specifications: 21,000 tons (approximating the America and Cedric); 613 ft. long, 80 ft. beam; two 8,500 h. p. turbo-electric motors capable of 18 knots; capacity, 800 passengers. In service next October, she will ply between New York and San Francisco in 13 days...
...crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises for myself so that...
...learned to accept as the authentic atmosphere of a London drawing-room. Imogene Wilson, now Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing epigrams at tea. Imogene Wilson's long eyelashes, big blue eyes, white skin, ash-blonde hair made her one of the prettiest children in the village
...streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young Plan. Germany's stiff-collared Hjalmar Schacht declared with equal insistence that he had no authority to do so. Chairman...