Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the cables flashed MORGAN did men of caution and property recognize that the story had really broken. Only then were they sure that final Reparations settlement will now be made, after ten years of piddling with approximations. After luncheon a purring motor car conveyed Chancellor Churchill to the station, where he impetuously entrained for London. Another car carried the Agent General to confer lengthily with Emile Moreau. Governor of the Bank of France. Rumors from Berlin told that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, stern, forthright President of the Reichsbank was expected momentarily to leave for Paris...
...southern station of the Harvard Observatory situated in Peru has now been moved completely to South Africa because of unfavorable weather conditions at its location in South America. A base has been established 14 miles from the town of Bloemfontein and it was announced yesterday that the contract has been let for the construction of seven buildings which are to house the telescopes and provide for offices, a library, servants quarters and garage, as well as a residence for the superintendent...
...Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door is her splendid mansion. It cost scores of thousands. Each year since 1920 she spent more than $250,000. In five years she spent $750,000 advertising herself and sermons in newspapers. Her radio station VVHAP, damned for its vicious criticisms of Jews and Catholics, cost her $500,000 to run. It still exists. She always dressed expensively. She owned Mrs. Eddy's crown of diamonds...
...Mating Call. Thomas Meighan comes home from the War to a Southern village to find that Evelyn Brent, whom he left at the station the day they were married, has had the marriage annulled and tied herself to Alan Roscoe. She still likes Meighan and hangs around his farm so much that the Ku Klux Klan warns him to let married women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis...
...years past it has been the custom, after Navy Games, to meet the returning team at the station. There is an old stage-coach at the Point that has a history. The Corps has always taken it to the station and drawn it back by hand laden with the battered team. The announcement of the new captain has always been made from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time...