Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undaunted the rebels opened at No. 66 Beaver St., Manhattan, an office which was called a' "consulate" by the. self-styled "Consul," Señor A. Jiminez. When reporters dropped in, the Consul assured them that merchandise shipped from the U.S. to Sonora and other states controlled by the rebels would be subject to a heavy fine unless registered with the consulate. Strolling back to their press rooms, and eying latest despatches from Mexico, the reporters could see at a glance how little founded were the pretensions of the Consul and his government to Power...
...Town's Woman. There is a real horse-race on the treadmill which once played so important a part in Ben Hur; there is an aviator for women who are still pining over Col. Lindbergh; there is a mean old bond-dealer, and a self-sacrificing heroine, and a waitress in trouble; there is enough plot for six plays; there are two intermissions and, at long last, a final curtain. But it all looks like another misfortune for the new Craig Theatre...
...self-exploitation nor for profit but as a gesture of international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France...
...Ahab, monomaniac. "A Khan of the plank and a king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came...
...Flying Club, which was started in 1925, is a self-supporting organization, its entire revenue being derived from initiation fees, dues, and flying rates, which are, nevertheless, comparatively low. The purpose of the club is to furnish experience in flying to those who desire it and to provide opportunities for members of the University to fly at rates less than half the standard commercial rates...