Word: terseness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To give flying passengers convenience New York City authorities have commissioned Clarence D. Chamberlin to lay out a field on Barren Island in New York Harbor. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss...
The Contents. When he arrived in Manhattan, Colonel Isham re fused to divulge the price he had paid for the contents of his suit case. He admitted that to secure them had been difficult because Lord Talbot had viewed the old let ters as a peculiarly private account of his...
In 1925, Mr. Sinclair issued a windy discourse, Mammonart, purporting to outline the history of Art and show that it has always been the valet of opulence. In 1923 he prescribed for U. S. education in The Goose-Step. But it is eight years since he has published a novel...
Irate citizens of many a rustic four-corners have protested, in let- ters to the Times, the "Yankee-fied" methods of the Big Five Banks which have acquired and torn down numerous picturesque and ancient inns, hostels, pubs, and replaced them with modern sanitary bank premises.