Word: worldely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate. He was assailed by the press, lampooned on the stage. Souvenir hunters put snapshots of him in their kodak albums with street beggars. Indians and other scenic curiosities. Undaunted, he works on. Today he is painting what will be the world's largest mural, in the Government Palace in Mex ico City, which will picture the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest. Painter Rivera is often visited by English speaking tourists and keeps a U. S. assistant to interpret...
Here, decided journalists, was an elixir of intelligence. Idiocy, in their thoughtless declarations, was now curable. Dr. Steinach last week emphatically assured the world that it was not an elixir of intelligence, but might be called an elixir "of temperament, because it is a natural stimulant." It restores overworked and overtired nerves to normal and makes sluggish animals active...
Birthday. Herbert George Wells, author (Mr. Britling Sees it Through, A Short History of the World, Men Like Gods); at Easton Glebe, Dunmow, Essex, England...
...janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...
...held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. ¶ In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs only two games out of the required series of 30 to keep the world chess championship. Said he: "Even the most confirmed opponent of the contention that the game is threatened with death through draws, could not have hoped for such a development." Play will be continued next week at Heidelberg...