Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHOOPEE STOP TIME HOW MANY GIRLS DO YOU KNOW WHO COULD AFFORD A LIFE OF LUXURIOUS EASE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD THE EXACTING LIFE OF A PROFESSIONAL PIANIST STOP THE SHOTWELL SAGA WHICH YOU QUOTE HAS ONLY BEGUN FOR PIANIST SHOTWELL IS AMERICAN BORN OF MAYFLOWER STOCK AND MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN HER STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT EITHER IN HER LIVING HER FRIENDS OR HER MUSIC...
...Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...
Unctuous Robert Warwick appears as a wealthy gentleman who yearns after a lovely virgin (Rose Hobart) but gets instead the wife of one of his friends through her own chicanery in a darkened room. This lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and the virgin moves safely toward matrimony with a gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There...
...Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must be in their colleges at a comparatively early hour each night...