Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upstairs a policeman enters (Edward J. McNamara). He has been sent by the indignant fiance, but is speedily pacified at the mention of liquors. Says the girl: "Why, policemen never drink, do they?" Says the bluecoat: "It just seems like never...
Last Spring the French and their Continental allies put through with the con sent of the then Conservative British Government a resolution providing in effect that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission should not seek or even con sider ways of limiting either war mate rials held in peacetime readiness by a nation or the number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last...
...Mail. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown sent word to the air mail operators that they must appear at Washington Sept. 30 to revise their contract rates. He must have revision because his air mail appropriation is $13,300,000 for this year and his expenses are mounting towards $15,000,000. He wants not only to get within his appropriations but to get below it. Dismaying was this call to the carriers who have been hoping to get all first class mail. However, Mr. Brown did not block that prospect specifically. Indeed his second assistant, Warren Irving Glover, volunteered that...
...wealth is disbursed in gorgeous grandeur. Invited to the famed Manville-Bernadotte wedding in Pleasantville, N. Y., Mrs. Hutton drove to Grand Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile trip in a private car, was met in Pleasantville by other Rolls-Royces she had sent ahead. On this occasion observers noted the private car did not carry an empty baggage car behind, usual Hutton caution against rear-end collisions...
...long as any nonacademic interest occupies first place in a boy's scale of values he should be given 'time out' to investigate it before he is sent to college. It may be that the boy will find that he is totally mistaken. A little actual experience on a farm may convince him that his interest in agriculture is not so deep as it once seemed; some time in a studio may reveal that his talent is not so great as he fancied. In that case, he can always return to college. But, until he has cleared...