Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Kasaczun, a parish priest of Sugar Notch in the Pennsylvania anthracite district, had previously given the most lurid account of the alcoholism of this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
With levity the New York Sun last week printed some alleged facts about Childs restaurants, facts which were not denied. Ac cording to the account, the management, which had shrewdly established white as symbolic of the cleanliness of foods served by the 3,500 white-clad waitresses in their 109 white-tiled restaurants, is as shrewdly beginning to insert cheer ful green among the white tiles. "Younger and prettier" serving girls are to be hired and are to wear uniforms trimmed with green. "The girls are just the same as the tile," an officer of the company is alleged...
...himself in his despatches to Congress to balancing the services that we have given the U.S. with an exaggerated exposition of the advantages that the Revolution procures for us. He gives an account by the rule of profits and losses, and he concludes from it that it is we who gain the most. Undoubtedly these constant efforts to disparage us must produce their effect on an assembly which forms its opinion of foreign powers mainly on the reports sent by its Ministers in Europe...
...Huntington baseball team proved itself no match for the Freshman nine yesterday afternoon, on Huntington Field Brookline when the 1929 aggregation burried the schoolboys under a 12 to 5 score. The game was called in the seventh inning on account of darkness...
...changes have been made in the schedule of the tennis team as it was originally announced. The first game which was arranged on the way south with the Agawan Hunt Club of Providence has been cancelled on account of the poor conditions of the club's courts...