Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find another kid kidnaped by the same gang, has the right flavor in spite of its slow movement and the extraordinary stupidity of the criminals. Hero Bennett, 12, uses to advantage certain metallic mots by Harriet Ford and the late Harvey O'Higgins. "You win the ten thousand dollars reward. What will you do with it?" . . . "I'll count it." Best shot: the kidnapers in Grand Central Station, Manhattan...
...college newspaper that co-eds "waylay and harass the male students", and, "destroy the studious and scholarly atmosphere of the college," are just as vain as the same argument that resulted in Socrates taking up his abode in the public square. At Detroit fifty girls are opposed to two thousand men, but Cleopatra had something that kept the Roman Legion at bay, while the sex appeal of Helen launched a thousand ships...
...thousand copies of this first issue are being printed for sale at Harvard, and 1000 more are being distributed, in groups of 50, among socialist organizations in other colleges...
...Eighteen thousand people can't be wrong. His is an adventure that has fast become obscured by dogmatic controversy. If one can appear in the midst of a warfare of creeds, rituals, and symbols, bringing a sincere fascination to a body of listeners, many of whom are incurious to investigate the intricacies of twentieth century faith,--if this is true, then at least a vestige of imagination and idealism prevails...
Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...