Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referred specifically only to New York. Would that mean an answer to the report that Wall Street is definitely assured of the ultimate Coolidge acceptance in case of a locked convention (TIME...
April 16)? No, because like all other Coolidge statements on the subject it omitted the final renunciation, the I-will-not-accept. Then it must mean simply a quietus to the Messrs. Hilles and Morris of New York...
Gossips remember that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
...Willis, a mean, unmarried, sturdy and unscrupulous cotton farmer; because he wants a son, he proposes to his hired girl. Her rough and ready steady, Jim Dolf (Elliott Nugent), has a fight with Farmer Willis, in the course of which he inflicts the injury that makes necessary a sawbone's attention. When this has been supplied, Mr. Willis marries little Amy and discovers that he is incapable of begetting any child. With pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because she wants...
When you are young you steer away from doctors; they mean sickness, suggest unpleasantness, death, even. But old people like doctors. Many rich old men make their doctors their best friends. When last week in Manhattan a bust of Dr. George David Stewart, president of the American College of Surgeons, was unveiled in his presence in the Carnegie Lecture room of the Bellevue Medical College, many old and wealthy men stood by with bare heads. One of them even tried to make a speech. The people gasped when they saw him come forward. It was George F. Baker...