Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personally interested in flying." said he, speaking proudly in recently acquired English. "After I have completed my work and become an old man, I hope to visit America. I may then be able to fly across the Atlantic. Twenty years from now a good-proportion of trans-Atlantic journeying will be done through...
Rumors to the contrary, it is not true that a man or woman can obtain a Sonora divorce in a week, or that neither the plaintiff nor defendant need appear. The average time for a Sonora-del Toro divorce is two months from the initiation of the suit in the Señor's New York office. The plaintiff must appear in person, in Sonora, and must remain in the State for 48 hours. Only in exceptional cases can this be avoided. The defendant need not appear per sonally. But to strengthen the legality of the Sonora decree...
Last week there strode into the flat white Department of Interior building in Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
Said he: "This new plan would enable the bright pupil to save two years in his preparatory training. Going directly from the two-year junior college into the professional colleges he would have a two-year start on the average professional man of today...
...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...