Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsdealers, whom he made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks, saw that every newsstand was supplied. In newsdealers' tiny offices, storerooms, back-alley loafing places, the name Max Annenberg became a great name. They call him "Max," he calls them by their first names. Once when a newsdealer died and left his business to a son who knew little about circulation, Max Annenberg stepped in, said he would be responsible for the efficiency...
...went to Burroughs Adding Machine Co., then located in St. Louis, as General Manager. He found that the man whom he succeeded as General Manager had left in a great rage. Soon Mr. Macauley, planning an expansion program, needed to acquire a certain alley. His predecessor had a good deal of political influence and the City Fathers would not give Mr. Macauley his alley. So Mr. Macauley took a train to Detroit, made arrangements for securing all necessary alleys and other real estate. Then back to St. Louis he went...
...follow this up, she turns on him angrily with: "I'm not so hard up I got to walk with scarecrows like, you!" She certainly is not "hard up." The toss of her head, the swing of her hips as she walked away from Jencic, bespeak an alley queen who can pick and change her lovers as she chooses...
Louis B. PARSONS New York City. Reader Parsons is correct. The Outcault strip was called "Hogan's Alley." It was continued in the World, after Outcault went to Hearst, by George B. Tuks. Then there were two "Yellow Kids." two yellow journals. - ED. B rownsville-Mexico City
Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...