Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public opinion could be gauged in Bucharest, last week, most Rumanians sympathized with Dowager Queen Marie, were indignant at the insinuation that U. S. citizens ever laughed at her, or are enjoying a last laugh...
...days in the air. Rewards: $31,255 prize money, $2,756 cash gifts, cheers from a reception crowd of 15,000, kisses from their wives. The utility of their long flight was debatable. They did display the stamina of their Curtiss-Challenger engine and they did strengthen public confidence in flying. Otherwise they accomplished nothing that had not been indicated by previous endurance flights. By operating their motor at low speed they kept it in long life. But that flying method does not help plane owners who must run their engines at high speed to travel from point to point...
London's Westminster Cathedral (Catholic) became unique among English edifices last week with the installation of a 185 ft. elevator, similar to those in U. S. skyscraper churches. Before the public was admitted, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, entered with the cathedral clergy, rode with dignity up and down...
...Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
...stores, which, though independently owned, market Drug, Inc.'s Rexall products. For Drug Inc. is a holding company for the United Drug Co. of Louis Kroh Liggett, combined with the onetime Sterling Products Co. (Feb. 1928) into the present drug chain which serves 25% of the U. S. public plus many a Canadian and Englishman...