Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short...
...digging up of some anti-cigaret legislation which the Nominee had introduced under pressure as a young legislator, and the republication of that same legislator's entire voting record on legislation touching public morals. The latter "expose" was the work of Willian Allen White, the round-faced, good-humored, politically astute editor of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, stout friend of Nominee Curtis. Earlier in the month Editor White had sketched the Smith record in an editorial and Nominee Smith had answered sketchily. He had accused Editor White of giving currency to inaccuracies broadcast by a New York clergyman-propagandist...
...Internationale" but is actually named the Third International Association of Workingmen. Last week the Communist party of the U. S. sent to Moscow as delegates to the sixth conference of the Third Internationale, Comrade John Pepper & Comrade John Loveday. A total of 50 nations were represented. Cheers rose all round Comrade Loveday, when he cried: "A free proletarian state will arise in the U. S. on the ruins of capitalism!" In short, the "Red Menace of Moscow" was in plenary and executive session, for the first time in four years. Conservatives redoubled nervous vigilance. Calm impartial observers refreshed their memories...
Embarrassed citizens of the U. S. hoped that Satevepost Owner Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who has a butler, will send him buttling 'round to Satevepost Editor George Horace Lorimer whose butler, if any, was thus shamefully exposed...
...things herself, she knew that Parisian women loved to soften their skins with greasy pastes, loved to create an artificial bloom to replace the natural color which had faded. The widow Angeline bent over the kitchen stove, mixing potions, whipping them into creams. Each ingredient she showed to the round-eyed, intelligent boy. Thus Louis Philippe was trained to become, not a king, but a maker of cosmetics...