Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign up for skating as a regular form of exercise, they may cut the sport they have signed up for on days when the weather permits and they prefer ice activities. This project was introduced as an experiment four years ago but had been dropped since then on account of the poor weather...
Here is an account, not reprinted from the current issue of the American Magazine, of the rise of a Man. To those whose present position seems to hold little future for them, to those who feel that their feet are caught in the Slough of Education, to those who feel within them the desire of the moth for the star, the story of Robert Lampoon will have a meaning all its own. Read then, all you in whom the flame of ambition is not yet suffocated, read the story of Lampoon, the Boy who became a Man overnight...
...tale-the tale of Dr. Faustus, legendary German philosopher, modified from Poet Goethe's tragedy for Composer Gounod's opera and re-modified into English, for the opening night of the American Opera Co. at Poli's Theatre (see Music, p. 22, for a further account). President Coolidge had been pleased to greet all the singers at the White House earlier in the day. He stayed through their whole performance and complimented Director Vladimir Rosing on how smoothly everything went. The box in which the President sat was that of Mrs. Joseph Leiter, outstanding capital hostess.* After...
...execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised of the riffraff...
...about to invest was ethically as well as financially unimpeachable. He had discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known, not only as an able millionaire, but also as a philanthropist, a reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge's $500,000 gift to the Anti-Saloon League. Accordingly, he was sure that the alleged misbehavior, although it had remained undenied, was merely a hollow defamation...