Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar Hammerstein, black cigar & light opera tycoon. Oriental rugs, costly new furniture adorned the living rooms. Beneath the house were labyrinthine tunnels where boatloads of liquor could be stored. On the roof was a lookout post and a searchlight for flashing messages out to sea. Conveniently placed was a well-stocked arsenal. Warlike trenches zigzagged about and machine guns stood on concrete emplacements. In a desk were the syndicate's account books, showing profits of $2,000,000 in the last six months. Among...
...will answer the call of the referee's opening whistle. Two of these men, Devens and Potter, are upon Team A as a result of a radical mid-week shift by Coach Horween, while Gildea is in there because of Ticknor's absence, and Douglas has regained the post of which he was deprived because of an injury. Whether or not Douglas will stay in the game long is problematical...
...acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more experienced professional diplomat had received the Cuban post was an indication that relations between the U. S. and Cuba were not as strained as they had last fortnight appeared...
...perennially provocative commentator on the U. S. college scene is Princeton's judicious, pince-nezzed. slow-spoken Dean Christian Gauss. His current contributions have been in the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "The Good Old Times." Excerpts...
...Blind enthusiasts for the past can only remind us of that group of grey-bearded New Englanders who, we are told, had gathered about the stove in the little post office at the crossroads, and were bemoaning the regrettable changes and universal degeneration round about them. 'Even Deacon Jones,' added the postmaster, 'isn't the man he used to be.' The approving squire summed it all up when he concluded sadly, 'No, and he never was.' So it is with the college undergraduate. It is true that in many respects...