Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...more august courses. J. Pierpont Morgan spent part of the week with Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
...Literary Guild has selected as its choice for April "Round Up" by Ring W. Lardner. The book will be published by Charles Scribner's Sons on April 5. "Round Up" is the only collection of short stories ever presented by the Guild and it is the first by Mr. Lardner in three years...
Russell Muth (Fox) turned the crank though volcanic gas dizzied him and the woman pilot who was steering his plane round the crater of Vesuvius. As the plane hit a tree near the rim of the crater, he saved his pictures by throwing the camera into some brushwood...
...same dollars-round, hard and heavy-are the chief currency of Tiajuana...