Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people of the flood area in Louisiana are as luckless as would be the officeworkers of Manhattan should an earthquake topple the skyscrapers into lower Broadway...
...amazed recently to learn that it was selected as the place for a marathon to determine the fresh water swimming championship of the world. Scores of tubby natators plunged in, determined to negotiate the entire distance (24 miles) from the upper end to Fort William Henry pergola at the lower end. That meant between 15 and 30 hours in cold water nowhere over 60 degrees, in many spots 45 degrees. Among them were Ernst Vierkoetter, German conqueror of the English Channel, William Albert Ericson (the Bronx), Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel (the Bronx swimming teacher), Lucy A. F. Dimond (Brooklyn), Paul...
...proposal envisioned considerably lower "replacement ages": cruisers 20 years; destroyers 15 to 17; submarines...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...
Talk About Girls is a summer musical show, advertised by an honest press agent as "better than most," which is no panegyric. There are two impecunious fellows who masquerade in Lower Falls, Mass., as captains of industry. They are soothingly played these hot days by Andrew Tombes and Russell Mack. During their pretentious sojourn in the small town they become involved in a water power deal of large proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed...