Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement is now afoot in the South-west to call the structure Hoover...
After a while, observing that the couple charm each other, Husband Carter plans to go west, get a divorce, thus allow Mrs. Carter to marry the engaging Bradford. But when he divulges this plan, Manager Bradford coolly declares that he is an itinerant fellow, not given to matrimony. Husband Carter's rage is quelled by his wife, who afterwards tells him that she has never been able to accept Bradford completely. Inspired by this new light on faithful, patient wifehood, Husband Carter decides to stay with Mrs. Carter and consult a new doctor...
...ancient, gifted family of Sackville existed in Elizabethan times, later played host to such cultured notables as Poets Pope and Dryden. Best known of living members is Lady-Novelist the Hon. V. Sackville-West (Seducers in Ecuador, The Land.) The family figures importantly in Novelist Virginia Woolf s Orlando...
...current trunk-line proposition involves the Wabash (controlled by the Pennsylvania), the Western Maryland, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia (Taplin property) and the Wheeling & Lake Erie (disputed between Taplins and Van Sweringens). The Wabash and the Western Maryland are units in the B. & O.'s merger plan now before the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema theatre. But E. J. Baker, brother-in-law of the late Mr. Gates, who inherited several other millions of the Gates estate, owns another community house, another theatre and a skyscraper hotel on the West bank. Last week the East-West controversy was intense, had split the entire town. Wash ington had to be consulted...