Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith, Esq. (TIME, April 22), that "the vilest, most scorch ing, absolutely abominable drink I can call to mind, is Russian vodka." Let our British friend depart briefly from the legal U. S. mineral water which he intends to stick to strictly for a fortnight, keeping a tumblerful within reach, and try some of our plentiful, genuine pre-War "stuff." VORIS D. SEAMAN Chicago...
...hurl their sleek, silvery bodies over the falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means "a leaper.") Goal of the jostling, leaping fish is the quiet of the Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike...
Well did Mr. Gann know that for his wife to reach her eminence, many an official wheel had had to. turn. The Vice President had protested against a State Department ruling which failed to accord Mrs. Gann full recognition (TIME, April 15). The matter was in the hands of Secretary of State Stimson...
...Disintegration of its hard-won national agreement to limit oil production to the 1928 figures, into state agreements; legalization of these agreements by each state; consolidation of these state authorizations into compacts or treaties between the States; final integration of the whole plan, beyond the reach of the anti-trust law, by the ratification in congress of the state treaties. The A. P. I., after four years' labor, had attempted to cover the U. S. oil industry with a broad agreement limiting production. Attorney General Mitchell advised Secretary Wilbur's board that it had no power to sanction...
...Lovely Lady", the latest Mitzi vehicle to reach Boston where it now graces the boards of the Wilbur Theatre, is a typically hot-house musical comedy product. The first act has as its locale the screen room of the "Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix...