Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge celebrated the close of his fifth year in office with a short railroad trip. It is only about a three-hour journey from Cedar Island lodge to a place called Hibbing in the Minnesota hinterland. Thither the President journeyed in a special train provided by U. S. Steel Corp., a train that had been examined and guarded with utmost care for 48 hours before its great passenger went aboard. Steel Corporation guards were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within...
...newspaper which Claudia and her amorous Cardinal helped to sell in 1909 was Il Popolo, edited by the fiery Socialist-patriot Cesare Battisti in the city of Trent, then Austrian, but ceded to Italy after the War. Editor Battisti, always short handed, was assisted by the General Secretary of the local Socialist trade unions, one Benito Mussolini, an Italian youth who had worked for a time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned...
...high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts a commonplace marriage with the silent man who had loved her all along. Adventures with football star, hearty marine and grey-haired oldster fell drably short of the tales of knights and ladies, her childhood favorites. But, after all, the lady, though golden-haired, was a stenographer. Author Weaver* still writes New Yorkese correctly, effectively. But he pieces it out with stilted paragraphs of unlikely philosophy and extraneous sophisticated opinion...
...mother-son relationship, and establishes itself as a classic human document expressed in lyric prose. But since then (1913) Author Lawrence has played less the artist and more the psychiatrist, his favorite study still the positive and negative reactions of sex attraction and repulsion. At their best the short stories of the present collection are a neurological graph done into Lawrence's powerful prose, and at their predominant worst (witness the title story) they are queer extravaganzas of symbology...
...last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo and Jaime finished in the rear; General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdur and Dictator of Spain, a spectator, laughed softly on the deck of another ship. . . . At the Maritime Club...