Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canals with earplugs helps some people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...
...flat tire. Look at the Middle West, prosperous, and here in New England we're slipping. I'll bo the biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...
Rolling out over the Florida Keys was mysteriously restful. At Key West, the sun had long gone down. The train went on a siding and, after more cinema, all except a few detectives and night-owlish newsgatherers, slept soundly...
...latest issue of The New York Times Magazine the American public is given an intimate and revealing glimpse into the lives and souls of every type of American undergraduate ranging from "the wealthy private institutions of the East" to the "great State universities of the Middle West, where democracy takes more obvious forms". While the author points out the deplorable falsity of the motion pictures affecting to depute undergraduate life and the justifiable student derision, he not only succeeds in digging pitfalls for motion picture directors in general but succeeds in relegating himself to a similar precarious position. For while...
...town talks. Her best friend and adviser is a fine man, but not in her social plane. She is too generous to care for that. One knows at the beginning that she will marry him at the end. She does. There is her mysterious half-brother from the West who, not having been heard of for 20 years, comes back and makes a fine figure in the village. Of course Mary and her friend David Cummings distrust him. Naturally they are right in the end when Benjamin Brewster turns out to have been a through cheat. Naturally everything ends happily...