Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacle. Their mayor, one Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle. Sitting beside him, dressed up as Father Neptune, a Broadway comedian named Eddie Dowling bowed and grimaced and made remarks which were inaudible. Behind this incongruous pair, an interminable succession of similar vans, decorated in fantastic style to resemble skyscrapers, vegetable gardens, bird cages, beaches, groves or prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise at all. On foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy...
...failed. Soon he appeared in Brunswick, Ga. To the merchants of that town he put his proposition. He would fly a plane alone to Rio de Janeiro, 4,600 miles, farther than any man had flown without touching the world. The merchants accepted, financed a Stinson Detroiter monoplane, similar to the plane in which Edward F. Schlee and William...
Sessions of the different sections in Detroit were similar to those of the American Medical Society in Washington last May. Noteworthy was the attitude of the Negro doctors, dentists and druggists that they were responsible for the health of their race...
...statement of Dr. Arno Clemens Gaebelein of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., editor since 1894 of Our Hope, a religious magazine, was a fact. Said he: "The second coming of Christ is near. Christ's return will be forecast by a figure sitting on a cloud with something similar to a sickle in his hand. The cloud will flush with a glorious light, then Christ is to come and all the holy angels will come with...
...report got about last week that the Mackay in terests would meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially...