Word: straight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiance, the other her friend whom he cajoles into sharing an apartment with him in the hope of finding her to be a criminal. The mistress of the fiance of his murdered ward, he installs elsewhere with a housekeeper so that while apparently furthering her idealistic efforts to "go straight," he can investigate her also for clues to a crime which he suspects her of having committed. Al Draper decoys both of them eventually to his roulette and poker establishment from which, by means of a raid, they are hustled to the office of the district attorney. Here...
...future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moon beams...
...Exchequer Philip Snowden would be outranked as a mere treasury official by the several prime ministers and foreign ministers present?and certainly Mr. Snowden would have been furious had he been seated below Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece! Therefore the delegates were seated not at one straight table but at ten round ones. Each statesman might fancy that where he sat was the head...
...Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba "proves" (by half-truths as well documented as Mother India's) that U. S. citizens ought to be even more...
Normal Man. Different are the types of various races. The U. S. Normal Man stands with his feet fairly well apart, his weight forward, more aggressive than philosophical. His hands are well controlled, his arms relaxed, his head straight, his chin...