Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement began: "The President said: I have been much interested. . . ." What he was interested in was the disclosure in a New York court that "a naval expert'' had received more than $50,000 from "three naval shipbuilding corporations," for propaganda that he had carried on for a bigger Navy and against naval limitation...
News values were vague. Dissertations upon the hot weather in Philadelphia, arrival of muslins from the Orient, occupied as much space as his "dearly beloved Majesty" addressing Parliament...
...could hardly have made more noise than Commander Rosendahl and Lieut. Jack Richardson at the familiar sight," gurgled Lady Drummond Hay through her typewriter. Next were the Akron hills with the Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible hangar mounting tremendously toward completion. No trouble was there getting to Manhattan and Lakehurst, and much joy. First to alight was Lieut. Richardson, who jumped to hug his wife and child. Other passengers rushed variously for bath and bed. Said Playboy Leeds: "I never saw the world, but only four bathtubs. . . . Please let me hustle along to that warm bath...
...Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary to attach great importance to the actions of those we love. We need them; only through...
When Eskimos take up tennis it will be news not much more unexpected than last fortnight's reports from Mexico City. There, where people take siestas before the bullfight, was played football. Soccer has long flourished in the sunshine zone, but it is regulation U. S. football, in felt-padded moleskins, that University of Mexico students are learning to play...