Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote as equals in a new "House of Parliament" hurried, last week, representatives of the toilers and officers of the vast Dunlop Rubber Co., near Birmingham. Each proud, contented toiler-"M.P." had been elected by the secret ballots of 150 constituents. A "Constitution" stood ratified by the "House of Parliament," and to it all Dun-loppers pledged allegiance and obedience...
...said: "It is as easy for an Englishman to say something nice as it is for him to have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built up between us. ... The palm may pass from us in the future. . . . But our task is in the present. Let us meet it together." After her lecture...
...flocks of bills," I find now that W. M. Ledbetter in your issue of Dec. 26 has given what I believe to be another erroneous explanation of this title by stating that it was conferred on Senator Warren "by the late Champ Clark because of the Senator's vast sheep interests in Wyoming." I feel sure that the designation was conferred on the venerable Senator from Wyoming by Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, on June 8, 1909, during the historic debate on Schedule K (the wool tariff) in the Senate, from which this extract is taken...
Anthropology & Medicine. Let doctors consult with anthropologists for light on human physical evolution, for data on human variation and for the furnishing of normal standards, said Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian institution. "The vast collection of both normal and pathological material in our Osteological, brain, and other collections is used nowhere near as much as it should be by the medical man and the surgeon. . . . [Physical anthropology shows for example] that the normal stature of an adult American male is not 5 feet 7½ inches, but anywhere between...
Lovely Lady. For those who like Edna Leedom this is valid fun. Miss Leedom is blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have...