Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoes since the General Strike, two years ago. . . . Maybe they listened a bit to the Bolshevik then, but that's all over now. . . . There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
Prior to perpetrating such pap for gullibles, young Erskine Gwynne, son of the late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor...
...Brooklyn Eagle Gannett comes into possession not only of a printing plant but also of a fine tradition. Although the circulation of the Eagle is relatively small -around 80,000- and does not conflict with that of the Manhattan dailies, its editorial influence has been considerable for many decades. Walt Whitman wrote editorials for the Eagle in 1846-48; among its editors and critics have been many great names. Most recently, Dr. St. Clair McKelway, editor-in-chief up to his death in 1915, brought distinction to the paper...
...departments took up a lot of space. Under the caption "Life Abroad" there were several columns of news briefs from all around the world, with a waggish commentary appended to each. The other department, of a similar nature, came out as Life at Home...
...Chrysler was not very much pleased, especially when she discovered that her husband did not mean to get some good out of so much extravagance by driving it around Oelwein. Instead, what did he do but take it all apart, put it all together and take it all apart again, getting all greasy and wasting his holidays and scratching his head like a perfect crank...