Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey sent up John E. Matthews to nominate Governor Silzer. New Jersey started a jaded parade, followed by New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. A pretty girl on the platform turned round and round, holding aloft the Governor's picture; another waved a flag; a glee club yowled intermittently. It was hard work, but lasted almost half an hour. Another New Jerseyan seconded Mr. Silzer...
...Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...held (1922), Glenna has twice collected at Buffalo. Prize packages for Glenna this year were the low medal (won in 80) and pretty Edith Cummings, Empress of the nation's links (done 6 and 5 in the final). Empress Edith shaved the women's course record to 78 in Round...
...Staggering blindly, Ermino Spalla, Italian Colossus, sought refuge on the floor from the rude jars dealt him by Gene Tunney, American light-heavyweight champion; was declared technically unconscious in the seventh round...
...Significance. The only significance is: you will absolutely spoil this delightful bit of whimsy if you go looking for any. It is told with all the round-eyed solemnity of a child's tale, and it was never meant to be analyzed or explained. Where the substance of the same author's Lady into Fox (TIME, Apr. 14, 1923) was fantasy, this is satire, deft and charming. Only, if you make the fatal mistake of trying to find out what it means, you will prick the bubble. For it means nothing at all and is a delight for just that...