Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge, bound West to cross the Mississippi for the first time since they have entered the White House, carried with them General John A. Lejeune (head of Marines...
...Wright composes motion picture literature and sells it by the million copies. He has more competition when his plots reach the screen. There are plenty of people who can think up just as obvious adventures as he can; adventures which will photograph well against a background of the dusty West. This one is about an Irish girl, come all the way to Arizona to find her wandering brother. She finds herself in addition a close shooting, hard riding, handsome husband...
...many millions of dollars have to be paid out by New York banks in cashing bond coupons due on that date, and also dividend checks issued on stocks. Very often this sudden though temporary demand for funds by New York banks, coupled with the need of sending funds west to move the crops, creates a temporary money shortage on and just before Oct. 1. So it turned out this year, and call money on the Stock Exchange-;-the most sensitive part of the American money market-rose to 6% quite suddenly...
...entrant terrible of contemporary literature. In the current issue of Menckeniana, Sinclair Lewis levels a loaded pen at "Sell Conscious America". Returning from the new Magna Americana on the left bank of the Sethe, he is ready to place another Maine Street beside those of the maligned Middle West. There is little difference, in his opinion, between the multiple masses of the mediocre who are content with the Sunday suppliments and those who fill Paris with their now conventional caprice. The self consciousness of the one matches that of the ether. "To have to choose between literary baseball fans...
...Wisconsin as he refuses the Cross of St. Olaf offered him by the King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...