Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene V. Debs, several times candidate for President on the Socialist ticket, last week planned to spend two months in Bermuda with his wife. But a doubt crossed his mind. If he went to Bermuda would the immigration authorities allow him to return...
Unfortunately nothing Mere Man can do will stop the hungry Goddess of Scandal. It is a Woman's game and a Woman's profit. And, indeed, why should Man worry? He can now afford to spend the afternoons at the club, since the children can be brought up on the by-products of Margot's tongue, or the vitality or Edna's system, not to mention the gate receipts of a good case of moral turpitude, Fortune has left the office and the bank, and retired shyly to the boudoir...
...sake, stop playing with high explosives. There is a cyclone of sentiment for immediate independence being created. If it burst, it will spend all its fury in the Philippines. If you really want happiness and genuine freedom, retain your junior partnership in the United States and do not try to navigate the troublesome seas of international affairs without a pilot...
...wealthy Detroit sportsman. The travel time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Cherbourg, hoping to catch the Mauretania, fastest (5-day) trans-Atlantic vessel...
...taking place largely through an altered conception of the absolute rights of individuals to use their property and liberty exactly as they see fit. In many jurisdictions a man who has a family can no longer mortgage his house, which he has bought with his own money, nor spend his own wages in such away as to leave his wife homeless or destitute. Likewise a man cannot dig a well on his own land so as to drain off another man's well unless there is some sufficient cause for his doing...