Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short...
...succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation at the Hoover abode. The end of the week saw the Nominee headed north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile motor trip to the headwaters of the Klamath River. With him, in eleven cars, went newsgatherers, cameramen, President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford...
...event, the poem soars into the very zenith of satiric sacrilege and "Champagne Popery."* Coldly, factually the Soviet press service Tass presented details on the basis of which cannibalism might be imputed to Captains Filipo Zappi and Alberto Mariano (respectively Pilot and Navigator of the Nobile dirigible Italia), who set off to tramp across the ice to land with the Swedish meteorologist Dr. Finn Malmgren, but were alone when rescued (TIME, July 23). Tass reported that, on the day before the rescue of Zappi and Mariano, a Soviet plane photographed them from the air, and that a third...
...Baldwin. First came a promise that the Baldwin Government will shortly force reduction of British freight rates on coal, in an effort to stimulate that industry, and relieve unemployment among miners. Second, Mr. Baldwin announced that Simon Joseph Fraser, Baron Lovat, Permanent Undersecretary of the Dominions Office, will shortly set sail for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to prepare a survey and general plan for integrating the manpower needs of Daughter Dominions with the job needs of Mother Britain. The projects, after being amply aired by Prime Minister Baldwin (Conservative), were roundly flayed by onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip...
...ooze with loud slaps of mighty tails. The eyes seem to glare with sheer hate, remorseless, soulless, infernal. The defeated crocodile, mangled and dead, is not eaten until it has partially decayed and thus become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes point upward in his path. He, knowing or fearing that they are always watching, perhaps with poisoned arrows drawn, may without difficulty become crazed with fear. The few whites who claim familiarity with Congo Pigmies have reported that these four-foot folk not only claim...