Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limit" for construction. His objections, he said, were budgetary. He wanted the President to be allowed discretion in executing the program, dependent upon the condition of the Treasury. To persuade Congress to drop the time-limit, The last week offered to recommend a special preliminary cruiser-building appropriation so soon as the bill should be passed...
...good ship Coolidge is approaching its final port. Soon there will be a general debarkation of officeholders, a great sifting of and searching for new berths. Wise political mariners quit their vessel just before she docks and thus avoid the gangplank congestion around March...
...Soon afterwards the bowler was doffed very gravely in the presence of a Mrs. Charles Cameron. Her husband had had no work for three years, and last week she gave birth to her eighth child. "How do you live?" questioned Edward. "Well, you see," said Mr. Cameron, "I get ten bob [$2.40] a week from the Poor Law Guardians and 18 bob [$4.30] in vouchers for food." Thus nine mouths have been fed on $6.70 a week, and now there is a tenth. This latter aspect of miner-woe was frankly discussed by Bachelor Wales with Father-of-Eight Cameron...
Opened importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...
...problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps it was from this arrangement, which glorified the American love of uniform and title, perhaps from the fact that the fire-house provided a comfortable meeting place, that the fire companies soon became social as well as utilitarian organizations. They were the forerunners of the future mushroom growth of fraternities and orders in the United States, and with their regalias, officiaidoms, and regular meetings furnished the model for subsequent convivial groups...