Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners, his employers, "a holy gang, a God-serving gang." He recited a poem to Mother, shook hands with Communist Press Agent Liston Oak, sat down...
...great steel mills that consume the ore obtained from his Swedish mines. Last week the reason was clear. In the past there had been but two factors in the German match market. One was Swedish Match, the other the government-protected cartel* of independent manufacturers. Recently a new, disturbing agent had appeared. Matches from the vast timberlands of Russia were underselling the western manufactured product. It appeared evident that Matchmaker Kreuger had come to establish a 100% monopoly in Germany as he had done in other countries. Indignant, the patriotic German press published premature announcements of the plan...
...only agent for bringing to Cambridge lecturers of national and often international reputations, the Union has rendered an important service in recent years. In the past its list of speakers has included such interesting personalities as Christopher Morley, Count Felixvon Luckner, Alexander Woollcott, Ford Madox Ford, and the arctic explorer Stefansson...
...first, "St. Francis Receiving the Stymata" is a Giotto, or a near-Giotto, and its quality has been favorably compared with the one in Paris. It is understood to be the discovery of Count Guoli, the foreign agent of the Metropolitan Museum...
...Beginning with a ripple of backwash from the War, it rolls, surges ever upward, froths to a peak in 1927. To many an oldster who went to college when colleges were smaller, less heterogeneous, this is a sorrowful thing. A profusion of academic degrees, to them, is a metabolistic agent, transforming incipient, able bricklayers into impotent lawyers. For oldsters came comfort last week...