Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farmer-Laborites nominated Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska for President of the U. S., despite his previous statement that he would lead no Third Party movement.* Mr. Norris reiterated that he thought a third party would be futile and refused the nomination. For Vice President, they nominated a man named Will J. Verne of Moultrie...
...importance of these documents is incalculable. The first would seem to set at rest the many alarms of those who have thought that Italy had colonial designs on Turkey. The pacts with Persia and Afghanistan are fresh documentary evidence of the fact that there is now in formation a Middle East Entente...
...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
Softsoap. It was not difficult to persuade Mrs. Coolidge that she should not make her own soap. But 120 years ago, such persuasion was the chief problem of soap salesmanship. Soap making was a routine occupation of every household. The eighteenth century housewife thought of buying soap as the twentieth century housekeeper would think of buying fried eggs for breakfast. The first soap manufacturers had to be clever psychologists. They had to make it smart to buy soap...
...into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion of attack...