Word: steepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kahn family shakes its head over Roger's "speed complex." At 14 he used to ride a motorcycle up the steep sides of the bunkers on his father's golf course. He tore down his first Ford and put it together so that it was a racing car with an underslung chassis. Never did a jerky airplane bumping through a series of air pockets make him sick at his stomach...
From the quay, past crowds which cried "Hip! Hip! Hooray!" the party ascended a steep hill to take luncheon near the old Citadel of Quebec, at the magnificent hotel, Chateau Frontenac. There Edward of Wales and Stanley Baldwin rivaled and outdid one another in the suavity and tact of their luncheon speeches...
...steep mountain trail slowly moved a wagon drawn by two horses, each adorned with American flags. In the wagon sat Mrs. Coolidge. Behind the wagon, pushing it vigorously, came President Coolidge. Sweat poured down the President's face; his coat was off, his vest had climbed up, announcing the fact that the President wears suspenders. The presidential party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added...
...much Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston) accomplishes by marrying Tod Gilbert (Neil Hamilton), who has come all the way from Niagara Falls to make his fortune as a song writer in Manhattan, never realizing at first that "Broadway may seem on the level, but it's a steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however...
Last week Commander Francesco de Pinedo, swart, pouting but good-natured Fascist ace, bade goodbye to the steep shores of Roosevelt Lake, Ariz. But he did not leave them as expected. His seaplane, the Santa Maria, in which he had skirted Africa, spun over the Atlantic, swooped over the jungles of Brazil, threaded the West Indies, visited New Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby...