Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agriculture. Secretary Gore retires on Mar. 4 to become Governor of West Virginia. For several weeks, the President has been meditating on the choice of a successor. For many years, the holder of the post has been a man expert in the technical side of farming. The President announced his belief that, at the present time, it was more important to appoint a man familiar with the business side of farming. He offered the post to Secretary Hoover who declined it, promising to assist, however, in the selection of a proper person. It was reported that the President...
...than all his grimaces and gestures. Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was a character study if ever one was written. The book had no further plot nor purpose. It told of a lovely, intense young woman who married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small Middle West town. It showed how utterly impossible became her life; it told what she did about it. All this the picture does, and only half the heroine comes to life. Despite an exceptionally adroit performance by Irene Rich, the film is feeble...
Justly bewildered observers resented the incoherence of the narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother...
During the winter of 1923 a visit was made to the west coast of Chile. There, two miles off Pichidangui, was located the wreck of the British schooner Cape Horn, which went down in 1869 with a cargo of copper, lying in 53 fathoms (318 ft.) of water. Captain Leavitt declares that in some of his searches he went down to 60 fathoms (360 ft.). When the wreck was discovered, a difficulty came up. At 53 fathoms it was almost pitch dark; there was not enough light to work...
...Gordon says what he has to say in language that has only one meaning, yet any but the most puritanical auditors can leave their shock absorbers at home with perfect safety. The play deals with the debilitating effect of the West Africa climate on white men, who, it appears, must inevitably take either to drink or to native women. The subject is not one which lends itself to dainty dialogue, but Mr. Gordon exercises commendable restraint. Moreover, he proves conclusively that the proprieties are offended far less by calling a spade a spade than by hinting darkly of certain unnamed...