Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known that Secretary Wilbur likes to think of his bluejackets as a fine, clean-cut lot of Christian sailors who would never think of smuggling girls or women aboard ship, even as a "prank," especially after ten days of shore leave in the Gulf ports. Five years ago, when a seagoing girl was found on the battleship Arizona between New York and Panama, Secretary Wilbur was shocked, embarrassed, furious, and a dozen sailors were court-martialed. Though no announcement was made it was safe to say that last week, as in 1923, every U. S. Navy ship afloat...
...burden of helping support the family" (in other words, he flunked out). But he did chance once to enter an Amherst classroom simultaneously with Cal, and venture that the winter was going to be cold. Cal "came right back, 'Yep.' Didn't waste a lot of time arguing and discussing. He knew!" On the strength of this intimacy, Lowell Schmaltz, vacationing office supply salesman, with Wife Mamie and Daughter Delmerine, drops in on "the old kid" at the White House. A suave morning-coated Mr. Jones welcomes him, gives gracious noncommittal answers to a persistent "What does...
...wife, Mamie, with the "advantage of canned goods, and delicatessen shops with every delicacy from salads to cold turkey" is free to play bridge and "get a lot of culture" at her William Lyon Phelps Ladies' Book and Literary Society...
...himself has "always given a lot of attention to intellectual matters . . . right up on history . . . clear through both Wells' Outline of History, or practically through it, and also Van Lear's Story of Mankind, especially studying the illustrations . . . and now kind of specializing on philosophy . . . this Story of Philosophy . . . it gives you the whole contents of all philosophy in one book...
...Rhodes scholar is to be trusted in the editorial department of a U.S. newspaper, for his association with Englishmen may be presumed to have made him an unpatriotic propagandist. In education he is even more dangerous, for the young people of the U. S. are an impressionable lot. He might be given a business job if concern had no foreign trade and never touched a foreign bond. If he should become a laborer, he might poison union minds with European socialism. As a scientist he would have to be watched, for there is no telling what dastardly machines he might...