Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of him and his activities. For the first time the Committee recommended legislation to "protect the public from this type of lobbying...
...type of quartz mercury vapor bulb for generating ultraviolet light developed...
...room table, lashed to his chair; breakfast has been laid for four, but nobody has touched it; everywhere is the thick stink of nicotine. The setting is melodramatic, but the action is confused, realistic: the policemen, the loudmouthed, lowbrowed coroner, the witnesses at the inquest, are photographically true to type. The satire on things political, policial, is at times more than implicit. In every detective story there should be a star detective but here he is fallible enough to seem human...
...warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations. . . . New type vessels are under construction which tend to throw the treaty cruisers into disfavor and minimize their chances of employment ten years hence...
Ernita, a clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with...