Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potential nominee seems to be still somewhat clouded, and if cannot bue be regretted that the Wet issue seems to be still dangerously entangled with religious prejudice. This aspect of the problem, always in the foreground, but heretofore rather problematical in its significance, has recently taken a more definite shape, and where anti-Catholic prejudice seemed to have been some what alloyed, it is now logical to expect that this factor will again come into prominence. A recent editorial in Osservatore Romano, the official mouthpiece of the Vatican, is reported as being an attack on Prohibition in the United States...
...Lynnhaven Oysters is no more efficiently safeguarded from eager ears than the Cabinet. . . . "The worst that can be honestly said of Congress, is that it exhibits the human equation performing under a spotlight. The best that can be said is, that the United States is in pretty good shape after years of Congressional guidance. Probably the Congress has had something to do with this. Probably the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans should get the credit...
...Pompeian artisan pounded a sheet of bronze into the shape of a reed pen. It served well for writing. Then Pompeii was drowned in Vesuvian dust and barbarians destroyed what part of Rome that the Romans themselves did not destroy. Men forgot metal pens...
...darkness came over the ocean one night last week, a fleet of fishing smacks, tugs and tenders lingered together around a spot off the Cape Cod coast. Their rocking signal flares betokened rough weather and disaster. In the surf near Provincetown loomed a stranded shape, the U. S. destroyer Paulding. Somewhere beneath the flares at sea lay the U. S. submarine 54, with 39 officers and men and one civilian aboard. Patrolling the coast, the Paulding had run across the S-4 amidships when the 54, on a trial run, came up without warning dead ahead...
...precipitated the Manhattan opera war; he who con- ducted the famed Music Hall at 42d St. & Broadway; he who made varied and spectacular sorties beyond the beaten path of the new world's amusements. Last week son Arthur Hammerstein unveiled a vast memorial to him in the shape of an exceedingly Gothic theatre containing everything from an elevating orchestra pit to an organ, before a vast audience containing memorable citizens from James John Walker, Mayor, to Nazimova, actress...