Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stirling of Berkeley, Calif., and comrades docked last week in Boston after a 15-month pilgrimage to the heart of Dutch New Guinea (between Australia and the Equator). Under Smithsonian auspices, and with the aid of admiring Dutch officers, they had flown a Liberty-motored seaplane to the upper reaches of the Mamberamo River, alighted and made friends with a myth. The latter was a most genteel, non-cannibalistic, Stone-age race of pygmies whose existence in the mountain fastnesses had been rumored but never proved. After some flitting through the undergrowth and bird-like calling back and forth...
...great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business,' he retorted. An instant later this Negro, with two companions who sprang from nowhere, seized and dragged me into the hallway...
...Upper berths, speeches, meals ordered on the dining ear with the confidence of a vaudeville trouper, oratory, ecstasies of religious passion, testimonials, quick little dancing steps, trips to foreign lands, Cuba, Milwaukee, Youngstown, dolls, John Roach Straton, Fresno, Aimee McPherson, cinema shows, school, tutor, lollypops,-God, salva- tions. Dr. Cadman...
...editorial wherein Pegasus reveals himself shaking his intelligent head doubtfully in meditation upon the probable results of an adoption of the rumored proposal to shorten the terms of lectures in the college year. The rest of the editorial columns are filled by the engaging Leander Snipe, who writes from upper New York State to recount the unfortunate falling out between those pillars of the Advocate's staff in other years, W. D. Edmonds and Essenz von Biershaum. Leanaer's letter has in it more life and warmth than any of the fiction to be found elsewhere in the magazine...
...Commerce should rule the air, or whether it should be ruled by a commission. The Administration favored Hoover & Successors. Congressman White wrote an appropriate bill and the House passed it. For the Senate, Mr. Dill wrote a bill about a commission, and the Senate passed that. Committees of the upper and lower houses met, worked long, late. That consummate politician, Senator Watson of Indiana, labored for harmony. Harmony came, but the Senator idea, slightly anti-Administration...