Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit of Christmas, or anything else, for that matter. But he does feel cheerio about the day, about the whole season. Since that is tantamount to a confession of old fashioned sentimentality, the Vagabond is willing to go the whole ways. He sincerely greets all his friends with...
Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most...
...seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost of a long-dead lover. Actors from Dayton, Ohio, were concerned with Zanzibar. Three Manhattan companies dealt, respectively...
...some taste in etchings; he did not split many infinitives; and he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven. He would certainly (so the observer assumed) produce excellent motor cars; he would make impressive speeches to the salesmen, but he would never love passionately, lose tragically, nor sit in contented idleness upon tropic shores...