Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russell Muth (Fox) turned the crank though volcanic gas dizzied him and the woman pilot who was steering his plane round the crater of Vesuvius. As the plane hit a tree near the rim of the crater, he saved his pictures by throwing the camera into some brushwood.
But the growing magnificence of the money-changers has by no means smothered religion in the Wall Street district. Only last week a new orthodox Jewish synagog opened its doors there for the first time. The synagog is merely an office building room given by Benjamin E. Greenspan, a lawyer...
The new treasurer, named last week, is Henry Lee Shattuck. Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Shattuck has no "who" in Who's Who. But not for some time has he needed such identification in Massachusetts. Since 1923 he has been Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in the Massachusetts House...
Cause of the hurly-burly was a questionnaire contrived by some students in the departments of sociology and psychology, assisted by their professors and circulated among 500 boy students and 500 girls. The questionnaire probed boldly into questions of sex: What did students think about trial marriage, sexual relations, licit...
The Man. A white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few...