Word: seriousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Then, late in the night, he got quickly into a waiting automobile, driven by his wife, and set off for the country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure character called William G. Dowrie...
Later last week Dr. Andrews showed that he had been at first jesting with newspapermen. Serious now, he compared the old beast to a story and a half house, 25 ft. tall by 25 ft. deep. With its heavy head it belonged to the rhinoceros family, ate the leaves of low trees...
Problems. Serious-minded Commander Byrd, famed as an aviator, likes to be thought a scientist as well. Indignantly he battles the idea that his flight to Europe last year was any mere trans-Atlantic hop. Science was the lure which drew him to the attempt. And Science, pure Science, calls him to the South Pole and Antarctica. These are the scientific mysteries Explorer Byrd hopes to bring to light...
...differential rediscounting," with low rates for agricultural and industrial loans, high rates for loans destined for speculation. To Manhattan came curly-haired Roy Archibald Young, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, ostensibly on a tour of inspection. But bankers noted his arrival coincided with the issuance of a serious warning by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Banks were "overloaned." The discrepancy between deposits and loans was becoming too great...
...transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark's, not content with winking, were stamping and frisking their tails; the winged lion was heard to laugh lecherously." Once in the jungles of Java, Catherine forgot her Norseman, and succumbed with Philip to the seductive musky sweetness of orchids...