Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million dollars in jail. The President's efforts to make Washington a model dry city were parodied with "The Song of Firewatha in the Land of Many Ha-Has." The Hoover "new patriots" were revealed as patrioteers; erstwhile Hoover advisers...
There is a two-fold romance--that of the sea and that of Dan Bover and Ann Duane, the slim and lovely toast of New York. Bover's unquenchable love of the sea, never satisfied except when he strides the quarterdeck of his ship, and his tortuous pursuit of an elusive but understanding Ann, provide the twin plots underlying the whole structure of the novel...
...Rivier "left nothing behind it but regret that Paris had devoted itself to the pursuit of the American fox."-W. J. Henderson in the New York...
Next the President sent telegrams to all state governors, urging them on to an "energetic, yet prudent, pursuit of public works" as a means of absorbing unemployment...
...commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search of her, in which occupation he grows old. In the end he marries the witch, is rejuvenated, dies. To his publisher Robert M. McBride. Mr. Cabell dedicates "this brief...