Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied that he himself was going to resign. Chicagoans last week talked of putting Vice President Charles Gates Dawes at the head of a consolidated anti-crime commission to rehabilitate Chicago's self-respect...
...China her recognition quickly, sympathetically, heartily. It is only one hundred and fifty years since we were winning our own independence. There may be a time when complications with Japan and all the other envious nations which hate us may make China's friendship valuable. We are a self-reliant people, but the time may come when we would be pleased, if only for the satisfaction of it, to hear four hundred million Chinese voices singing, "Uncle Sam, we are here...
...this reason the British Foreign Office has honestly and without hypocrisy proclaimed that control of Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense (see INTERNATIONAL...
...starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion...
...have cropped up in the last decade -prefer them undiluted with the tender passion. Though Author Rinehart knows how to write a mystery story (The Amazing Interlude, The Red Lamp), and her sons* know how to publish them, she indulges in dilution to the extent of a new volume self-labelled "a love story-with just enough mystery." Mystery connoisseurs will be disappointed. Love-storyites will find in Holly a spineless heroine, in Warrington a blundering hero in spite of his burly good looks, and in Furness Brooks (he paid dinner calls) an unbelievable relic of the days before jazz...