Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have known anything about them," was the reply...
...simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also reveals that the young college hockey player whom she thought she loved is not so ardent as he seemed. James Stevens...
Ringside Comment. Soon it appeared that British Public opinion was indeed breaking party lines, surging to support Philip Snowden. "His robust patriotism pleases us as much as it surprises us," cried the conservative Morning Post, normally a ruthless flayer of all Laboriteism. "We are delighted that there is no nonsense about internationalism in the line that he has taken, and that he stands firmly upon the British interest...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
...Newton. The Hubbells own the $100,000,000 Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa, and $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of Des Moines real estate. Connecticut-born, lawyer-trained Frederick Marion Hubbells, 90, is head of the family. He acts as chairman of the insurance company. Two much younger Hubbells, Fred and Jim, financed and starred on the Des Moines polo team for several years...