Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Clive told her he was marrying an unshackled modern, a newspaper woman, with dark hair brushed straight back like a boy, Monica was shocked, but contrived to ask lightly: 'Is anybody shackled nowadays, my dear?' 'Oh, we all are! . . . People who dress for dinner, I mean, and are presented at Court, and take in the "Quarterly Review...
Like the oilmen, the silkmen desire a limitation of production agreement. Last year a monthly average of 94.5% of all broad looms were in operation. Huge surpluses of finished silk are stacking up in warehouses. Buyers are holding back, waiting for a price break. Like the oilmen, the silkmen need Government acquiescence in an agreement. But the government, much though it might like to, is too tangled up with anti-trust legislation to help or acquiesce in either oil or silk plans (see National Affairs...
...PATHWAY-Henry Williamson- Dutton ($2.50). After the War, William Maddison crept back to his native Devon, to the burrows, the sandhills, the rising and ebbing tides, to starry nights in winter, to summer nights of mad lightning and serene moonlight. At the Manor of Wildernesse he still found Mary, "grave and beautiful and innocent," who loved small birds and high winds as he did himself...
...step outside the Vatican would be. On June 24, feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, he will step into his new Fiat car and drive to the Church of St. John Lateran,* where he will celebrate a mass. The papal motor will contain a sort of back-seat throne, where the Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver, will turn his back upon him when he drives through Roman streets. In such state...
...printed about 20,000 copies of his first issue. Half of them came back unsold. The Sunday circulation of the Times last week was 752,689. It is unquestionably the greatest U. S. newspaper, with special emphasis on the "news." Perhaps it is the world's greatest...