Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors who handle your FOREIGN NEWS. The pointed, condensed methods used are excellent. Your weekly words about the China situation are splendid. Congratulations to your China Editor, whom I would really like to know some day, for his subject happens also to be my hobby. I must wish you "Ten Thousand Years...
...Outside the schoolroom which serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten o'clock until noon they sat, patient, vigilant. On the stroke of twelve the President came out of the office, bowed to the trio, passed on. Called the farmer to a nearby Secret Service man: "Is that the President? 'Well, come on, Mandy; now we can say we seen...
...with a polite bow, does not usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even Hollywood could have produced a cowboy attired in more complete accordance with the traditions of his calling...
Seven out of every ten stockholders in the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, through a committee, last week formally decided to lease their lines for 99 years to a new company, the Great Northern Pacific Railway Co. These paired roads operate from Chicago to Spokane, Portland and Seattle-territory also served by the competitive Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul...
...women. Her themes, it is true, often concern women doing men's work, organizing their lives toward a new freedom. The Lovely Ship in manner bears some resemblance to the writings of Joseph Hergesheimer, but Miss Jameson is more interested in making her people live than in describing ten-course dinners. Her performance in this book is one of almost pure perfection. An intention beautifully realized excuses an occasional prolixity. An infrequent weakness is overbalanced by Miss Jameson's subtlety in emotional perceptions, her shining artistry...