Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was no darkness in the mind of Tacoma's Mayor James Gifford New-begin. Remembering the Navy's statistic, and realizing that the Lexington was tied up at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, not 30 miles away, he wired the Navy Department in Washington and asked the loan of its power plant...
...Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along the same lines. Alexander Legge. Chairman of the Federal Farm Board, drawled, "It looks as if industry would have to begin scraping around to get employes instead of laying off anybody...
...dinner. Then, in the protection of the cave, after the crude meal, they played j games with polished bones and round stones, and yelled with delight or rolled upon the ground with laughter and wild glee. Sometimes, in the excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit has endured. . . ." Helen Wills, world's No. 1 lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said...
After the tension of selling had ended, after Panic had taken at least a temporary departure, the chaotic jumble of happenings during the break became gradually clarified. It was possible to begin to summarize, thus...
That was how tradition required the 10? fictioneers to begin their lusty shockers. Author Pearson has collected prize examples of this U. S. phenomenon. The matter he quotes is alone worth the price. It is set out chronologically with a running commentary that, oddly enough, sometimes berates the authors, sometimes exalts them by comparison with today's literary idols...