Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Terseness has been Calvin Coolidge's contribution to modern political speech in the U. S. Studious, abstract prolixity has been Herbert Hoover's. Plainness, homeliness, informality, which some called "cheapness" and others "humor," what some called "smart" and others "clever," what none denied had drive and excitement characterized the campaign utterances of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...They were two Republicans and one Democrat, but all represented the new type of political woman. They were all ladies of greater wealth than previous women Congressmen have been. One's husband had been a Senator and his seat in the Senate was her ultimate goal. But none was a Representative's widow, as has usually been the case with Congresswomen...
Professor Masaryk's egotism is as titanic as his achievements. Single-handed he built up the marvelous organization of propagandists, spies and deserters who finally erected themselves into the nucleus of a state. True, Professor Masaryk was indispensably assisted by Dr. Edouard Benes, now Foreign Minister, but none the less Professor Masaryk is the Father of Czechoslovakia. His propagandists are become statesmen, his spies heroes, his deserters officers in the Army of the Republic...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
When they left Long Island, the fliers took with them 525 gallons of gas. Half an hour longer in the air and they would have had none left. Weather conditions were consistently bad. Flying over the Pennsylvanian Appalachians they encountered what Tucker calls the worst fog he has ever seen. For 1,000 miles they fought a head wind, which retarded their average speed some 20 miles an hour...