Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivers, the Schuylkill and the Delaware, guided the ship toward Trenton. With Commander Rosendahl at the bridge, familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane, a half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about the elephantine Zeppelin. One of them, a plane bearing news photographers, nearly brushed the hide of the ship, aroused the nervous ire of Eckener, who frantically waved the annoying flea away...
German newsgatherers, totally excluded from the "celebration," had to be content with interviewing at Berlin the President's nephew, Herbert von Hindenburg, who told them his favorite Hindenburg anecdote...
...comic relief. At Omaha, he had again handled with gloves that troublesome symbol, the Equalization Fee. Without gloves he had man-handled the G. O. P.'s eight-year "solicitude and sympathy" for the farmer. If it had "listened well" to Republican Governor McMullen, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was content. He continued his inspection of the State capitol which the late, great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York designed for Nebraska...
...pronounced by Nominee Smith. To some ears, some other Smith pronunciations are "foist" (first) "poisonally" (personally) "alcoholic content (alcoholic content) "comparable" (comparable). Nominee Hoover, as radio listeners have learned, seems to say "incomparable," "prerequisite," "pardner," "ammilerate" (ameliorate). *Robert Latham Owen, onetime (1907-25) Senator, Smith bolter (TIME...
Dressed in the magnificent rags of theatrical insurgence, surrounded by beautiful girls and elaborate scenery, yodeling a plea for stout-hearted men made tuneful by Sigmund Romberg, Robert (Robert Halliday) and his assistant (William O'Neal) organize their golden expedition. Robert is not content with merely this adventure; in making pretty passes at the hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then...