Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industry. Vermont's industrial losses were some seven millions, bringing the total loss to thirty millions in a state with only 400,000 population. To rehabilitate industry, credit was the important thing, said Secretary Hoover. Let New England extend credit to Vermont, letting character supplement collateral. What Mississippi Valley bankers had done, surely the New England bankers could...
Although Burton Rascoe thought his The Waste Land a "thing of bitterness and beauty," a nameless London editor pronounced it "an obscure but amusing poem." The reader must judge for himself. But of his brilliance as a critic there can be little doubt, however much his taste may be in dispute...
...Jones, Yale football mentor, after the Harvard-Yale game had the following comment to make on scouting: "I think the elimination of scouting would be a good thing for the game, but I don't think it ought to be mandatory. If non-scouting pacts are arranged, they ought to be personal agreements between coaches...
...simplicity is in large measure responsible for its charm. It is also refreshing that there are very few members of the cast that stand out. The whole production is well balanced, but if might be well to add that the specialty dances of Bryson and Jones are the best thing the reviewer has seen for a long time
...with Trevor, whose casual desertion of her in London has moved her to the effort of retaliation. Monk's Hall is swept by the draughts of a thousand petty enmities, jealousies, hungers, hatreds. When William finds Trevor in his wife's bedroom he does the natural thing, the thing that was expected of him. He takes a shotgun and follows him into the woods that surround Monk's Hall...