Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morrow-Lindbergh engagement was incredible not only to dream-sick young girls. Mr. Morrow's good friend and Englewood, N. J., neighbor, potent Board Chairman Seward Prosser of the Bankers' Trust Co., could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss...
...second generation. He contrasts Beret, reluctant Norwegian immigrant of the earlier volume, with Beret's son Peder, who is impatient with the language, religion and customs of his mother's country. Peder insists upon lessons in English, Bible in English, chatter in English with the Irish neighbors a mile or so. down the road. Then suddenly, fearfully, Beret knows Peder loves the Irish neighbor's daughter. Beret's fury is terrific her sudden capitulation beautiful and tragic- one of few great moments in the book...
...Will sleep two comfortably and luxuriously if they don't dislike each other." Sea Sleds are priced under a thou sand dollars; outboard motors, sold separately, bring the prices to the neighbor hood of $1,100. Model 18 has a minimum-guarantee speed...
Professor Hart told an anecdote of Washington and a neighbor, George Mason, who disagreed over a boundary line. "They finally decided for each to put up a ditch near the disputed line leaving the undecided area between the two: An airport of 3,200 acres is now being laid out near Mt. Vernon and the two ditches run, side by side, across the whole area. The government is trying to obtain 600 acres out of this site for a national public airport...
...time has come for us to assume a less aggressive attitude toward Japan. One cannot brandish the mailed fist at one's neighbor and then complain if he shows unfriendliness. I now believe in the sincerity of Japan's desire to enter once more into negotiations with our Government. . . . As soon as negotiations for the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung are completed, we must despatch our own best soldiers to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists there. . . . Since we are now awaiting the arrival of the new Japanese Minister [to China, M. Yoshizawa], I suggest...