Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
Born in Pennsylvania 60 years ago, a Cleveland City Councilman before he was 30, Mr. Hopkins in 1924 left successful business enterprises which had amply enriched him to become Cleveland's first manager. Three times in almost three years Cleveland citizens have been asked to vote down the city manager plan by Harry Lyman Davis, onetime Governor of Ohio and mayor of Cleveland, who sought to restore "the city government to the people" - and the politicians. To the defense of Manager Hopkins' government flocked the women. They campaigned for him. made house-to-house canvasses...
Character in a novel begins with the physical. Author Chapman has few physical descriptions, thus she has a hard job delineating character. Almost wholly she lets her people talk and describe themselves thereby; that far, at least, she succeeds with character. Indeed, her plots being fragile and her style under the influence of Thomas Hardy, the Tennessee idiom remains as her only virtue. Says...
Another name for Maristan Chapman is Mrs. John Stanton Chapman. She, 34 next month, surprises native Tennesseeans often, since she looks and dresses almost as would a male. Her previous book, The Happy Mountain, sold 80,000 copies, was Literary Guilded...
Still inoperative last week, United Stores Corp. seemed almost certain of passing out of existence as a new consolidation of United Cigars Co., Tobacco Products Corp., Gold Dust Corp. interests appeared. This time the Morrows and others acquired majority stock holdings of the tobacco companies, whose assets amount to some $200,000,000. At a directors' meeting George K. Morrow was elected President and Board Chairman of both companies, Mr. Whelan was retained on the directorates...