Word: seene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially textiles and cement. So potent has Mr. Grundy been tariff-tailoring that when Utah's Reed Smoot. the chief Senate tariff designer, was asked about revision last month during his visit to Herbert Hoover in Florida, he said: "I don't know. I haven't seen...
Last week the U. S. paid its 1928 income tax. And as has invariably been the case under the Mellon regime, it was seen that the Treasury had underestimated its revenue expectations. Tax payments ran high enough last week for Fiscal officials to talk of a $50,000,000 surplus...
...rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be accused, at the moment he is recognized by her, of a murder committed by someone else. Feeble directing of these elements is compensated chiefly by the beautiful legs of Lila Lee as a night club entertainer. Best shot: Texas Guinan asking...
...Giuliano did one thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...chondrulites. The process of accretion still goes on. Earth within human history has not been struck by (i. e., has not attracted) a planetesimal. But each day at least one meteorite lands, and 20,000,000 chondrulites whiz into the earth's atmosphere. They are the shooting stars seen most often in November (the Leonid shower), in August (the Perseid shower) and in April (the Lyrid shower...