Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short address by Commander R. C. Grady, head of the Naval Science Department and an active member of the United States Navy, who led a fleet of submarines in the World War. He spoke on "Increased Naval Expenditures," bringing out first the point of national policy. People look with apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States has at present only ten cruisers...
...elaborate and expensive "lobby" it maintained in Washington to escape a Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...
Governor McCray replies: "Ed, I am amazed that you should make that kind of an offer to me. You evidently don't know me. It begins to look like I've lost my fortune that I've striven for for 35 years. My office is threatened, it looks as if they are threatening my liberty, but I'm not going to lose my self respect...
Tony also encountered talent of another type-Natalie, the wife of Arthur Gortion. She was a Russian noblewoman of dark, warm beauty. Gortion had begun to look on her as an indiscretion of his youth; she locked her door at night and saw little of him or of the townsfolk. So it was natural that Natalie and Tony, both out of place in Berkenmeer society, should become illicit lovers. One day, Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches...
Author Merz, 34, Yale graduate, editorial writer for the New York World, contributor to magazines, has a little black mustache, a serious look. His book is the choice of the Literary Guild for February...