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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What would American life be without the questionnaire? It testifies at once to the intellectual curiosity of the inquirer, to his industry and to the imputed zeal of the public. It is made to be answered. Presumably it is answered or the stream of questions would not flow around every subject under Heaven. The good obey meekly each request to deliver their minds and never grumble about the postage. There should be a questionnaire on "Who invented the questionnaire?" If detected, his birthday should be a national holiday. He has given us a precious "institution...
...over the road." The train left Sobriety at 5 o'clock and by 8 o'clock had passed through Sippington, Liarsville, and Guzzler's Junction to Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium Falls, Maniac Marsh, Hangman's Hollow and several other pleasant villages passengers were thrown out without stopping the train...
Shrewd Bachia Sakao, chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...
Faces of Children or (U. S. title) Mother of Mine. Once in a while, out of the stream of trade-products, comes a masterpiece-last year The Crowd, this year Faces of Children. It is the first cinema, and one of the few creations in any medium, that gets childhood across. Because of the memory of his dead mother, a boy of ten cannot get used to how things are when his father marries again. His new mother is kind to him, but she has a little daughter whom he has to quarrel with. The struggle of his loyalty against...
...direction; in another is Minster Lovell, on the way to the Cotswolds and those charming hidden villages of the Stone Country; in another direction, past Old Marston, where Cromwell planned his campaign against Oxford, is as sweet a village as any in England. Wood Eaton, sleeping beside a little stream that winds in and out of coppices and fields; and going farther in this direction one comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this...