Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have an unobstructed airplane runway 1,200 ft. long by 200 ft. wide. At the mid-sides the platform will project to give room for a hotel (with restaurant and bar), hangars, storage sheds, weather bureau, offices, hospital wards, lighthouse. Platform and buildings will be 80 ft. above calm water level. Because no Atlantic waves have ever been seen more than 45 ft. high, it is improbable that the runway ever will be awash. The buoyancy columns with their stabilizing disks will reach 160 ft. below water level. That is considerably deeper than any wave action has ever been noted...
...hand of another's daughter. The story is simple enough to keep moving under its weight of rather dull local color-Maoris feasting and testing their strength, hurled down hillsides by battle, or sticking out their tongues and making faces while they dance. Best shot: reflection in water of the great pattern of trees in which the tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good-bye song for tribesmen going away. Venus (United Artists ). No poet's goddess of pearl rising from the dark blue of an Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left...
Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
...Immature cats will be barred . . . Angoras and other 'fuzzy' felines will be barred. Only run-of-the-yard cats will be eligible. It is a well-known fact that housebred cats are not as antagonistic to water as backyard cats. . . . Fifteen minutes will be allowed for the washing...
...Each contestant must provide his own cat, pan, soap, water and towel. There will be no restriction on gloves and baseball masks. When the judges have looked over the cats, the three contestants who have made the best jobs will be presented first, second and third prizes. . . . Guards will be stationed at the sides and ends of the enclosures to make sure that no stray dog enters...