Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poorest of South American republics, the country that gave the world the "Panama" hat gave the U.S. President-Elect a handsome reception. Motorboats swarmed out to surround and escort the Cleveland to her mooring. Some 50,000 of the populace packed the waterfront...
...comfortably built gentleman with charming manners. He has a generous, thoughtful disposition. His taste in dressing gowns and girl friends is catholic. He is a born promoter, especially of versatile night clubs and small-time prize fights. He has at least $1,000,000 and likes to surround himself with strong-armed young men. The young men are pugilists professionally and "Boo Boo's" boxing stable has often contained upwards of 100 likely bullies. He sends them from city to city to meet other boxers and he usually guesses or knows how each match will come out. Successful fight...
Informed of the event, non-Catholics were properly impressed by this example of the technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...capital of the U. S. . . . Another day, in Washington, he addressed a joint session of the American Association of Museums and the American Federation of Arts. "We need to put more effort into translating art into the daily lives of the people," said President Coolidge. "If we surround ourselves with forms of beauty, the evil things of life would tend to disappear and our moral standards would be raised...
...Negri, one of Hollywood's choicest importations, is the reason for going to the Metropolitan this week, if one is not of that ever increasing Publix contingent which just loves to put Gene Rodemich on a pedestal and applaude his numerous gyrations. However, to give Gene credit, he does surround himself with a some-what more entertaining group than usual to celebrate his "Hall and Farewell" performances. Now that he is leaving Boston, for a while at least, the reviewers will have to give more attention to the feature film at the Babylonish picture palace...