Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With the opening of the new port here pilots now feel safe...
...White House is the springboard to head lines-Washington Axiom. President Hoover last week set about uprooting the conditions which made this saying, known to every wide-awake capital press agent, lobbyist and promoter, unpleasantly true. For months the President has been annoyed at the old and accepted practice of self-important little men entering the White House, saying "How-do-you-do" to the President, coming out to the newsgatherers in the lobby to talk of their "mission." What is said is generally of small importance; it would get scant press attention anywhere else. But because the publicity-seeker...
...knew her well-a woman of striking appearance, rich, gracious, restless, energetic, vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features of her home, some of her costumes. To her theatre at "Evergreen" she invited special guests, sang to them in a voice not professionally successful. Later, remaining childless...
...always these public services have been rendered with a private distinction which has marked "Evergreen" hospitality. There, a dinner menu elaborately inscribed on a gold-bordered card is set in a little gold holder before each guest, that he may gauge his appetite. And, dinner done, guests may wander through a library where tier on tier of precious old books are the envy of every bibliophile...
...grizzled old man of 71 walked slowly down the steps of Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison, looking neither right nor left at staring crowds. He wore a grey baggy suit, a flannel shirt, a soft cap, carried a small paper package. His face was set in hard, unhappy lines. He spoke to no one, as he climbed into a Ford sedan, cringed down in its back seat. The car carried him out of the prison yard for the first time in 43 years...