Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quote from TIME, May 2: " 'The Star Spangled Banner' ... is, according to many an American, of too elaborate composition, too great a range, to be suitable for the national hymn...
...possible that in your colossal ignorance you do not know that the "Star Spangled Banner" is our official national anthem ? You must know this, and therefore your expression "to be" is sneeringly malicious and most offensive...
...Star Delegations, The 1,000 delegates felt keenest interest last week in two delegations, composed (as to important delegates) respectively of 6 U. S. representatives and 16 Soviet Russians. Never before has the U. S. sent a "delegation" (as distinguished from mere "observers") to a conference called by the League; and not since the Lausanne Conference of 1923, when a Soviet envoy was murdered on Swiss soil, has "Red Russia" sent delegates of any kind into Switzerland...
...decades ago, over beer mugs, undergraduates told stories of the star fullback who found $100 bills under his door after each game and of the agile shortstop who played baseball on Sunday and who was wagered $50 he could not jump over a bat. But today, such practices are supposed to be extinct...
...uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book and promptly falls in love with Saville. "Young Raphael," a Jew, in turn falls in love with her, and steals one of his father's diamonds as a present. She refuses it, and the affair is found out. Saville, however, rejects her, and falls in love with Venetia...