Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refusal to have any connection, official or otherwise, with the International Bank of Settlements. This was no direct rebuff to Messrs. Young & Morgan. In May, Statesman Stimson had publicly announced the same thing: that there would be no Hoover recognizance of any connection between war debts and reparations. Well knowing their government's attitude, the U. S. commissioners had inserted a provision in the Young Plan whereby private citizens could be selected for the Bank in the absence of official U. S. representatives...
...second tract, called The Eighteenth Amendment: A message to young people, began: "Our country needs young people who understand the Eighteenth Amendment and its workings . . . young people whose opinions are so well grounded in fact that they will not be easily misled by false or one-sided arguments...
...Gerrit P. Judd. a Yankee physician sent out by the American Board of Missions. For 14 years Dr. Judd ministered to the Hawaiians, body and soul, helping with many another missionary to persuade them from idolatry to Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are merged in Hawaii as the Central Union Church...
...keep the temperature between 70 degrees and 80 degrees day in and out, where life is so easy that the per capita wealth is higher than anywhere in the world, Hawaii is not boasting much when it calls itself "Paradise." Many are the other U. S. executives who may well envy Governor Judd...
...National). Without being particularly original or ambitious, this account of Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable, unlikely comic action, punctuated with subtitles, remind you how well the movies used to get along without the sound device. Plumber Jack Mulhall is proud of being a plumber; his theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew...