Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violence. He had little so-called education, but much breadth of understanding. His eyes were keen, his mouth firm, his forehead high. Inflammatory rhetoric was not part of his appeal. Sympathy and dig nity were his tools. Collective bargaining and arbitration were his weapons, the strike only an ultimate resort...
Miami. A hackneyed story, chiefly notable for its glimpses of the luxury of the famous Florida resort, and for the views of Betty Compson in a one-piece outfit...
...college education of parents, too, which in spite of Mr. Bertrand Russell's opinion to the contrary is genuinely liberal, has created an atmosphere of surprising toleration and intelligence in the home if they wish to read poetry on the day of rest, instead of exercising, modern children, resort no longer to Lewis Carroll and R. L. S. They turn for mental nourishment to the subtle lyrics of Miss Nathalia Crane, aged ten or eleven, who has just published "The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems", to the sound of subdued cheers from the press of the country...
William Randolph Hearst, famed publisher: "My newspapers announced that the young pupils of Swimming Master David Gardella of Palm Beach had participated in one of the most successful water carnivals in the history of that resort. Miss Mary Pierrepont scored the greatest number of points (19). But my young son, Randolph A. Hearst was second (14½). Other participants were Miss Ella Pillsbury, Miss Beatrice Breese, Master Charles Pillsbury, Master Jack Pierrepont. Said my New York American: 'Not the least interesting event was the pie-eating contest, which was won by Randolph A. Hearst, with Miss Beatrice Breese second...
President Augusto B. Leguia, hav-ing failed to attract American capital into his country overnight, has reverted to the last resort of the disappointed politician - muckraking. He accuses the Guaranty Trust Co., of Manhattan, of throttling Peruvian loans...