Word: steading
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Said her friend, the late Journalist William Thomas Stead: "She could not be the bride of Heaven, and therefore became the bride of Mr. Frank Besant. He was hardly an adequate substitute." But Annie Besant did not long remain the compliant wife of a Victorian country vicar...
...wanders through reels of wise cracks and sly digs at the Prohibition amendment. His supporting cast is pretty rank with the possible exception of Maureen O'Sullivan. She seems to have forgotten the mannerisms of speech that are current on the "auld sod", and has acquired in their stead a conventional vocabulary that smacks of Hollywood. The only reason for learning the name of the man who played opposite her is to forestall future attendance at movies in which he appears. This precaution was neglected...
...relayed through 20 ground stations to the line's New York office. His company's nation-wide network, largest operated by any single airway system in the U. S.,* was completed. More powerful stations at Columbus and Albuquerque can be used to speed messages "overhead," in stead of through all the intermediate points. Next step will be the installation of still stronger transmitters at New York and Los Angeles for direct transcontinental conversation. But the primary purpose of the system is for communication between planes in flight and the ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed...
Never personally fond of President Hoover,* Citizen Coolidge wrote: In the general field of agriculture, government interference in an attempt to maintain prices out of the Treasury is almost certain to make matters worse in stead of better. It disorganizes the whole economic fabric...
According to the Harkness Hoot, named in honor of the charitable Edward S. Harkness, Yale has but a short span of moagre years before her. The oldtime meditation and culture have fled the university cloisters and, in their stead, have come cynicism and sophistication. The mellow beer that mocked the hearts of the fathers has become bad gin for the raging sons. Things have come to a pretty pass...