Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gags galore have been dragged in, and when one sees the same bells that one has seen at least ten times before swinging in the snow on Christmas morning one impulsively reaches for one's hat. Many fair scenes in which ten minutes are spent in building up an atmosphere are spoiled by small careless gestures. The captions plan their usual predominant role...
...Department to carry the Naval Science units of Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech. Proceeding down Long Island Sound, the cruiser touched at Newport and New Haven, where the Yale unit, already veterans of a week's service, disembarked. The cruiser carried the Harvard sailors to Annapolis, where the contingent spent July 4, and sailed for home, arriving in Boston on July...
Harlan Fiske Stone, latest addition (1925) to the Supreme Court, is its youngest, biggest, strapping-strongest member. He is but 55, He was graduated by Amherst College the year before Calvin Coolidge, in 1894. For 14 years (1910-24) he was Columbia University's Dean of Law and spent eleven months, between quitting that post and taking his present one, at being U. S. Attorney General. There was a flurry before Mr. Associate Justice Stone's confirmation by the Senate over the fact that he once represented J. P. Morgan & Co., and a storm over the fact that...
Good Press? Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Mexico, spent busy hours severing connections, settling his affairs, emptying desks and files in J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Manhattan office, whence he had resigned. Then he went to dinner at the Lotus Club as chief guest of Herbert Bayard Swope, energetic executive editor of the Independent Democratic New York World. Other guests, whose presence seemed to promise Mr. Morrow "a good press" in the U. S. after he reaches Mexico City, included Publishers Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World...
Leon Trotzky, né Bronstein, was born 50 years ago, son of bourgeois Jewish parents. In Odessa, he received an excellent high school and university education, aged 17, he became a revolutionary, working for the downfall of the Tsarist regime. Like all Russian revolutionaries, he spent long terms in prison and longer terms in exile in a dozen different countries, including the U. S., where he lived for a time in the Bronx, New York City...