Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge announced last week that he would take his summer vacation in the West. In what particular spot, he did not say. The West is big; it begins, no one knows just where; it ends at the Pacific Ocean. Some say that the President is going West to placate the embattled farmers; others believe that he merely wants to fish. Also, said some, to shoot...
...Evening Journal" first brought the idea of this feat of culinary composition to Mr. Taxier. In it the point was carefully made that as yet there was no proper eating place in Harvard Square. Not the man to let a golden opportunity melt away, Mr. Taxier leapt to the spot and founded the wayside oasis new rapidly nearing completion...
...After five days of this wanton decapitation General Li Pao-chang posted up a bland proclamation: "I am touched by the numerous executions by my subordinates. They were prompted thereto by my orders to execute on the spot, without question and without trial. This order I now rescind...
Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...
...operatic version of a sixteenth century "pick up" in the best New Yorkese of the twentieth century. Johnny Dooley carried off the comedy honors in this, and the singing was by far the best of the evening. Another Dooley production, his strong man act, was quite a bright spot until it died from over-exposure. Joe Cook's chief contribution to the evening's entertainment, and one which did much to justify his headliner abilities, was his interpretative reading of an incident in the life of little Johnny Skunk or perhaps it was one of the other Little Folks. Miss...