Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the dance?a "Kaw Special"? was over, there were more speeches. Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Colvin, sister of "Cousin Charley," stammered: "It isn't my fault, but I want you to know that I?that we? are all very proud of Charley...
...responsible leadership." The potent Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, 26 strong, last week published an editorial saying: "An independent newspaper is not a party organ. In supporting Hoover, we will not align ourselves as the enemy or traducer of the good and able man who is his opponent. "We want to see Hoover in the White House. But, excepting Hoover, we would rather see Alfred E. Smith than any man since Woodrow Wilson...
...Said Mrs. Gibson, whose sister, as everyone knows, is Lady Astor: "You needn't worry about Mrs. Smith in the White House or anywhere else. "That's a great little lady. She has perfect poise, gentleness, kindliness of heart, all the really fine qualities which we women want in the White House...
Young architects want more than anything else to win the Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, providing $3,600 for two and a half years' study at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Last week one Thomas H. Locraft, 24, student at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, won it for his design of "A Supreme Court Building of a Republic." More extraordinary than the prowess of the winner was that of the Yale University School of Fine Arts which supplied three prize winners in the competition-A. J. Kelsey, who was second...
...Nash. The first of the manufacturers to put autumn models on the market is the Nash Motors Co. They are sixes, grouped in three series. Prices range from $885 to $1,775. "Twin ignition,* high compression. . . . I don't think anyone will ever want to use all the speed and power they deliver," says President Charles W. Nash...