Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great mass of Senators and Representatives are hammish on the capital's main social stage. That is why Washington is full of side shows. The form of the main performance is reproduced faithfully on a small, stuffy scale in the lobbies and "parlors" of the inexpensive hotels near Washington's Union Station. Seldom are these second-rate social troopers seen in Northwest Washington after 6 p. m. When a second-rate Congressman does scale the heights, he usually does something gauche-like the Senator who had himself flash-lighted as he entered Secretary Mellon's home...
Specialization. Aviation has developed four main types of craft for civilian use-gadabouts to hop from one suburb to another nearby; sport planes, slightly bigger; coupes, sedans, coaches and cabins (all the foregoing may be flown comfortably by the owner pilot); limited commercial planes, which carry usually six passengers (these also come equipped with office furniture for the business executive, his secretary, his pilot); the great transports. Land planes, of course, were most numerous at Detroit. But notable is the number of amphibians, seaplanes and air yachts now on the market-Sikorsky, Fairchild, Keystone, Leoning, Boeing, Aeromarine, Klemm, American Marchetti...
...course at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was second woman in a Scrap of Paper, The Famous Mrs. Fair, Alias Jimmy Valentine. She jumped into headlines with Richard Bennett in He Who Gets Slapped. In the last two years she has been a member of the Main Acting Company of the Theatre Guild. Unmarried, she has an apartment of her own and likes contract bridge, cats (three at present), golf, swimming...
Long before daybreak, the federals appeared in three columns. Right and left closed in on Jiminez like a nutcracker, while the main column under General Almazan himself pressed straight forward. It was impossible to see. A thousand crashes which left the eardrums ringing, and the darkness burst into points of flame. Artillery, machine gunners and riflemen banged away at the opposing flashes. The rebels, with three lines of trenches, held out bravely to the dawn and through the heat of the ensuing...
...With its main line running from Montreal to Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry...