Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dying is out of the question. The remote risk of it is just enough to make a flight by Coolidge, with Lindbergh, a magnificently "sporting" thing for him to do in a country which prides itself on its sportsmanship. There's too much play-safe policy among its public figures. Roosevelt would fly with Lindbergh like a shot-he would have the day Lindbergh got home from Paris! Better late than never...
...Yard may they soon be removed nor even the spirit of that white, cold and immovable bust that gazes so silent and steadfastly out through the halls of the Fogg, far out into what one knows not, will move the Vagabond to pursue his search of the things which one rendered unto the mind. In fact, about the only thing which will move him is the 1 o'clock to New York, and he advises all his readers to let this beneficent influence effect them...
...compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood on the living room carpet and all that sort of thing...
...bromide is any expression that has been used enough to become nauseating. Examples: i) Here's mud in your eye. 2) A little learning is a dangerous thing. 3) Finders keepers, losers weepers. 4) It's a sad world, mates. 5) One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Drug store cowboys are fond of bromides...
...Another thing that makes people come to see a musical comedy is a number of well-known names in the cast," she went on. "The people who play in it, besides being important, must also be young and attractive. And you will notice that the plot of nearly every musical comedy this year has a youthful appeal. This year producers have tried to combine all these qualities, together with good comedy, and as a result only three musical comedies have failed in New York this season, while the drama, operetta, and revue have not had any remarkable success...