Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeneas saw, and called the gods by name...
...impression that a mythical younger generation is about to invade the drama with guns, saxophones, poetry and (God save the mark!) Expressionism. I herewith depone that this is emphatically not the case. It is not so very long ago that the first trained elephant stepped proudly into the first saw-dust ring, but the art of entertainment as practiced by Mr. Barnum (as well as by William Shakespeare and Florenz Ziegfeld) is a very ancient art indeed. Nor has it changed so greatly...
...rosy face, his shining eyes-the "typical" figure of a youngish German. (The Chancellor is only 46.) They remembered him as the onetime Upper Burgomaster of Essen who twice was summoned to appear before the French General of Occupation, who twice refused-and the General came to him. They saw him now as the hard-headed hero who first balanced the budget and stabilized the mark, and who had done it "not by genius but by character...
Villacoublay, French Government airdrome, saw the completion of a seaplane with a 500-h.p. motor capable, it is said, of flying for 34 hours, and thus fitted for the Paris-New York flight. Two war veterans will fly it: Francis Coli and Paul Tarascon. The latter acquired a wooden leg in pre-War flying and later shot down eleven German planes in battle...
...hats. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald came in a soft felt and a lounge suit, a fact which brought joy to the shires but caused a slight depression on the Exchange. Lords and ladies, Knights and gentlemen, they saw pictures that pleased them-suave specimens of super-photography in oil, executed by the hand of man, unassisted by any machine. Sir John Lavery's adept portraits of George Bernard Shaw, of Jockey Steve...