Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farmers in Newell, S. Dak., gave President Coolidge one small gold irrigation shovel, two sheep, then offered to give him a farm of 160 acres on condition that he would settle thereon with sheep and shovel. Said the President: "These presents round out just what I need to be a farmer in South Dakota. ... I have been presented with a fine saddle horse and accoutrements. ... I am the possessor of a herd of cattle...
Hula (Clara Bow). In this film, Paramount proudly advertises its vivacious actress as the "IT" girl. Never was actress in more desperate need of that celebrated quality. She must portray an Irish-born girl, "gone native" in Hawaii despite the fact that her father, a wealthy planter, entertains at his uproarious carousals the smartest Hawaiian society. Among the constant company is a slim siren of sophisticated manner. This only makes it harder for primitive Hula to capture the cold Englishman engineer who shaves every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already...
President Whitman's satisfying speech traced the Association's history from its founding at Saratoga, N. Y., by a small group of men who saw that the nation's legal thought would need guidance; mentioned the understandings reached at conferences between the Association and the American Federation of Labor, looking toward the settlement of interstate industrial disputes; praised the Federal Radio Commission for "diligence and intelligence...
Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...
...Ellery W. Stone of Federal Brandes, Inc., a related corporation, last week. Radio Communication further made a 20-year contract with Federal Telegraph to buy solely from Federal Telegraph all the radio, wired radio, picture transmission, long distance telephone repeater and facsimile telegraph equipment which the Mackay Companies might need in the doing of its business. On such equipment Federal Telegraph is to make a 25% profit and also a royalty on the pieces of apparatus used by the Mackay Companies. Further, the Mackay Companies obligated itself, through its Radio Communication, to pay half the cost of Federal Telegraph...