Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Able, experienced, great-capacitied Senator Robinson spent the last nights and days campaigning arduously in southern Illinois, where his voice could be heard in hard-fought Missouri. He made a side trip, for some reason, across Indiana into arch-Republican Ohio. Then he went home to Arkansas, one State he knew was going Democratic...
...Bishop of La Rochelle had denounced the erection of this monument as "a public sin." Reason: the statue represented the most famed and also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous...
Demure was London's Betty Compton. Her smile was mischievous but reliable. She lived 148 years ago, but she is still remembered. Reason: Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait. At the time she was 20. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northampton. Her combined hair & wigs piled up enormously above her white brow, bright eyes, little pointed chin. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When...
...completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love him!" "Then that's a very good reason not to marry him," despite Miss Gish's grotesque make-up and quaintly haphazard clothes, Young Love is adequate entertainment...
...Transfer in New Jersey, where steam locomotives replace electric ones for the long Pennsylvania hauls south and west, and to Long Island City where the Pennsy's Long Island trains change from electricity to steam-within all that great triangle electric locomotives haul the cars. For the same reason at Manhattan the New York Central hauls its trains by electricity to Harmon and the New York, New Haven & Hartford to New Haven...