Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caused more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused...
Secretary Stimson also recalled that Mr. Barlow once threatened to "bust on the nose" his predecessor, Frank Billings Kellogg, because that old gentleman did not seem interested enough in his case...
...obscure Newsman Harden gave the New York World a scoop on the battle of Manila Bay. Last week Mr. Harden, now a potent New York banker (James B. Colgate & Co.), was saddened by the ignominy in store for old battleship Olympia...
...chief charm, U. S. lack of romantic or musical appreciation, social rise of the Southern Negro, exercise unnecessary, emasculation of U. S. actors by Anglicizing, a six-page list of the sex-business in one season's plays, the U. S. "itch for bogus purple," the old U. S. saloons not clubs, an assault on publishers including A. A. Knopf, dancing not art but exhibitionism. A typical Nathanity: "And if too many people familiarly call Jimmy Walker by his first name, too many, it seems to me, do the same thing with Jesus Christ...
...many of the cities it was reported that the lack of co-operation from the parents of minors found in the halls was the greatest handicap confronting the supervisors . . . due sometimes to ignorance of what their children were doing, sometimes to indifference, and sometimes to the old belief that young people must sow their wild oats...