Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing to The Times by penning a letter to The New York Times. In a considerable amount of language he made the following points, confirming Mr. Smith's own statements: Hungary, led gently in the right financial path by Jeremiah Smith . . . seems more contented with her economic lot than appeared possible a year or so ago. Her budget is in order and she is not drawing on League of Nations' funds for current expenses. . . . There have been rumors that part of the League's financial support was really being used by Hungary to build up her military...
...story by Reporter Jack De Witt of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, began: ''There's a lot of good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...
...convince any thinking person of his sincerity. Then, too, how could a man born in Rome, N.Y., who has been both landscape-gardener and preacher, be totally lacking in sincerity? No, Mr. Wright is sincere, and there is no question in my mind that his books have done a lot of good in the world. If there are those who consider them sentimental, and there are, they cannot be denied such an opinion; but it is sentimentality based on the real sentiment of the many, which, perhaps, is not sentimentality at all, when you come right down to the point...
...last week, was responsible for Gershwin's taking up music in the first place. In 1911, his mother's sister-in-law bought a piano. Because the promptings of that Genius told his mother to keep up with the Joneses, she bought one also. The thing had cost a lot and it was no good unless somebody learned to play it. So the Gershwin family hired a teacher for George, then 13. Came the day when he played for Max Rosen, famed violinist. Mr. Rosen patted him kindly on the shoulder, told him that he had better learn a trade...
...freedom of choice a man may or may not "fall in" for church parade as he likes; if he does not, he "falls out" for kitchen police or some other disagreeable detail. Apparently only those who declare themselves to be oriental mystics or Mohammedan believers may escape the common lot...