Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(3 of 4) Washington. Berry, the Prime Minister's valet, and Inspectors Walter Dew and Victor White, his Scotland Yard attendants, may well have been surprised to hear the cannonading and bugle-blowing that went up as their chief, self-styled "missionary of peace," detrained in Washington to find...
(2 of 2) Philip K. he named a gum, "P. K's.," to share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white...
¶ In Cambridge, Mass., Sophomore Lawrence B. Cohen Jr., president of Harvard's Socialist Club, was arrested for handing out pamphlets expressing a Socialist welcome to the Socialist Prime Minister. Excerpt: "Do not be deceived; MacDonald is not a public menace, but he is a Socialist, and Labor candidates...
"Owing to the financial effort demanded by the restoration of France's devastated regions, the general plan for a defensive system could not be formulated until two years ago. The program involves the construction of roads, railways, underground telegraph systems, and the stocking of frontier posts with engineering and...
Candle-Light. The chronicles of taste in the modern theatre contain the names of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard on every page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter...