Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back from Panama, Secretary of the Navy Denby called at the Virgin Islands and heard the complaints of the islanders who are economically in a desperate position. Now that he has returned to Washington, he must try to solve the problem that the islands present and fulfill his promise to send out the best navy engineer obtainable to make a survey of the very serious water situation on the islands...
...however, to remonstrate with those who have no respect for the virgin white margin of a new book, is to moralize with Don Juan. My suggestion is that the Library provide at the desk slips of gummed onion-skin paper such as are used by Law students, which can be attached to the page in peril, covered with critical and artistic scum which floats to the surface of the defiler's mind, and later removed when their appropriateness is past. GLENN C. BRAMBLE...
Henry Ford purchased 120,000 acres of undeveloped coal lands in Kentucky, containing a potential supply of 500,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. He plans to supply fuel from this huge virgin tract for all his own factories, the factories making Ford accessories and those other manufacturing plants that care to participate in his coal conservation scheme...
...last all dirty smudges are to be erased from the virgin whiteness of the printed page. The founder of the Clean Books League has thus described its purpose: "To form a coterie of men who are well known and whose opinions will have weight, not churchmen and not goody-goody men, but hardened sinners like myself, representative fathers of families. They will read the books and pass judgement on them and vouch it to the world if they are objectionable or shocking...
...bovine, 17-year-old daughter and a stodgy wife, who immediately poisons herself. He has an unaccountable tendency to take off his clothes, with or without provocation. He introduces the subject of his prospective elopement by parading up and down his room, characteristically naked, before a picture of the Virgin, until his wife and daughter come in, find him, and think him crazy. He is inclined to agree with them. So is the reader...