Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groups of six or 12 couples, and it is essential that all those going to the Prom should make a special effort to arrange boxes in groups of these sizes as the committee will assign all who have not done this to any boxes that are vacant. Groups should select their chairmen, who are then to fill out the blanks to be issued by the committee...
...were to choose the two most sensational bits of prose published in 1926, one might well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame...
...Several days after my accident, a speaker on the program of Radio Broadcast Station WHAP of Manhattan (anti-Catholic, anti-non-Christian Jew, and 'Auntie Most Everything') informed its select coterie of listeners-in of my misfortune and intimated that it was only the expected retribution for the number of 'questionable' productions of mine on Broadway (Lulu Belle, etc.). News of this will undoubtedly be a great aid to my rapid recovery...
...Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills out in Hawaii...
...working unit in the contest is the individual college. Each college is to select its own representative, and is to have only one. A series of semi-finals will be held before the national finals, eliminating all but seven men who take part in the finals at Los Angeles, each having the assurance of one of the seven cash prizes...