Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underneath the curtain was a rack of beautiful silver hip flasks and the word went round they were filled with Scotch or something and 'help yourself.' A considerable number of the gentlemen there did help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they...
Famed Nebraskans past, present and sometime: the Bryan Brothers (William Jennings, Charles Wayland), U. S. Senator George William Norris, Union Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard...
Berkeley Square is a dignified and cerebral romance based on the Bergsonian-Einsteinian notion of Time, which hints that past, present and future are illusory, that the impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back...
...present system of putting through a dial telephone call is as follows: For each of the first three letters of the called exchange name, and for the four figures of the number and the letter of the party line, the caller turns the dial. Each dial turn actuates a delicate electro-magnet at the automatic exchange. If the call is to another dial call, the automatic exchange mechanically connects the call with the proper exchange, number and party, rings insistently. If the dial call is to a manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number...
...debaters will discuss aspects of the question of censorship which are at present troubling the country as a whole and Boston in particular...