Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of time, the editorial arrived at the desk of the chairman of the Yale Daily News, undergraduate daily. It seemed an obvious thing to quote; so he marked it for quotation on the editorial page of his own publication. Next day, sure enough, students read in the News...
Readers of the New York Daily News were intrigued last Saturday morning by a headline. Those who were able to spell out the glaring slur read it aloud to their friends and chuckled; it was a good line, the sort of thing that makes the News their favorite newspaper. They bent to scrutinize the photograph that was printed below- a picture of the funeral of the Queen Mother, Alexandra. There were King George and the Prince of Wales stalking with solemn strides; there were King Christian of Denmark in a plumed hat, the King of Norway and the King...
...wire business is quite seasonal. Every summer, wires are established to New England and the summer resorts. Just now an unprecedented demand has arisen for wires to Miami, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach and other Florida centres. To a less extent, the same thing may be said for many other parts of the South. The southern demand for security-trading wire facilities has arisen not only from the South's popularity as a winter recreation centre, but also from its marked prosperity this year...
...futile little man, that Howard Spencer, who owned three fourths of the "Press," was a very fine man, and that the "Press" should be expanded. Mort Crane could not think in that way. So there was a parting of their ways, which turned out to be a good thing for Mort and a poor thing for Alice, for she found that Howard Spencer was not all she desired. Mort found another woman, who was all he desired, and that is how he and Alice came in the end to be reconciled. Presumably they did live happily?not that the currency...
...think, would you not? that plays about the younger generation were about over with. But they are not. Here are such a shrewd and forward-looking a dramatist as James Forbes and such excellent performers as Helen Hayes, Norman Trevor, Eric Dressier and Florence Eldridge going over the whole thing again...