Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that he had been out of the market all summer. But that the great bull should have turned into a bear was a blow which could only be described as catastrophic. Seeking a parallel, traders suggested that Nominee Hoover might issue such a statement as this: "My name has been frequently mentioned as being prominently identified with the Republican party. As a matter of fact I have never been a Republican. I am a firm believer in Jeffersonian Democracy...
Cynics of the baptismal font to the contrary, Edna St. Vincent Millay did not affect her lilting name, but she retains it in preference to her husband's, Eugen Jan Boissevain. A wealthy importer, he was previously married to the famed suffragist, Inez Mulholland. Miss Millay is proud of owning "the smallest house and garden in Manhattan" (Greenwich Village), though Thomas Hardy couples her with skyscrapers, "recessional buildings," as the two greatest things in America. She is coupled, further, with Edgar Allan Poe, as the only American poets to have attained translation into the Spanish...
...laggards are the press agents of Clara Bow. For better or worse they have affixed to her the appositive name, "The It Girl," and the connotation to that title means to collegians, railway clerks, farm boys that Clara Bow is the personification of sex appeal. But Miss Bow also has histrionic ability. Some measure of praise is due her in this piece, in which she is the mercenary mink who works as a professional partner in a dancehall. Like the heroine in that play called Night Hostess, she maintains a nominal chastity?"she walks home alone"?but teases sailors...
...pond animal life reproduced at the Museum there are water fleas, protozoa (single-celled animals), insect larvae, and rotifers. The rotifers, most interesting, give their name to the entire exhibit. The commonest kinds are shaped like tops. The rotifer head is round and surrounded at the flat shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...
...President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College, since Wilson days a Democrat. Reasons: Prohibition, farm re¬ l i e f , f o r e i g n r e l a t i o n s . 1,000 Methodist ministers of Ohio. Reason: "In the name of Ohio Methodism I desire to report that the services of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in Ohio have produced a profound impression on the moral forces of the entire state"-Bishop...