Word: opens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into the cab of the freight monster-with Queen Marie watchfully present-and actually clutched and tugged at the throttle with sufficient force to open it and spin the giant driving wheels. Precocious and forthright, King Mihai said to the steam engineer: "At home I have...
...short. Quick to realize it, Victor Talking Machine Co., when it offered $25,000 last spring 'for the best symphonic work, included prize offers of $10,000 and $5,000 for best and second-best short compositions suitable for a jazz orchestra. The $25,000 symphonic contest stays open until next May. Winners of the jazz contest were named last week in Manhattan at a dinner at which John Philip Sousa was toastmaster...
...that hapless warrior. Renaud, it was said, had never been able to forget, let alone forgive, the Germans. Swope on the other hand is critical of jingo patriotism. And in religious matters, Renaud was described as uncompromisingly Protestant. The Swopian World's news columns were always wide open to the Catholics...
Said Swope: "I have no plans. But I'll have an office uptown and the door will be open always for World men." With characteristic brutal frankness he added: "I don't know anything about Mr. Renaud. But I do feel some regret that no one was taken from the staff to be managing editor...
Murray and Budd a goodly number.) In general, the new models taper from rear to front. That gives roomy back seats. By widening rear axles, manufacturers have obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...