Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by their friend, Senator William M. Butler, were swallowed up in a railroad train and carried off in the first section of the Bar Harbor Express. Next day they were let down in Washington...
...addition to its comic strips and editorials, the Chicago Tribune publishes on Sunday, a rotogravure section. Last Sunday, a photograph appeared therein of five people smiling at the cameraman through the glare of a midday sun from a piazza of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club of Rye, N. Y. The Tribune printed four names, from left to right, MacDonald Smith, Miss Maureen Orcutt, Miss Glenna Collett, Walter Hagen. Now behind this foursome of renowned golfers, on a step that made him clearly visible above their heads, stood a gentlemen. His well-brushed hair glistened in the sunlight. He wore...
...exactly say that "ignorance is bliss", but that "the farm laborer is often better educated than the clerk, whose head is filled with half-digested facts. A colleague took issue: "Tainted with the public school accent! A man like Dr. Vaughan who educates the more fortunate section of the population, contemplates with equanimity the ignorance of the rest of the country and speaks glibly of its happiness. The plowman may be happier than the clerk, but his. wages are miserably small and his prospects of comfortable old age are remote." A colleague gave support: "There are unhappy, miserable men among...
Danzig Post Office. A committee to delimit the Port of Danzig decided that the port included not onlv the wharfs and waterside but also a good part of the business section of the city, cause of the ruling is that unde the Versailles Treaty Poland claims the right to postal service in the port of Danzig. Poland last year set up post boxes throughout Danzig German citizens knocked them down, mutilated them, spat upon them. The limits of the port are now tentatively defined...