Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco" and when (33 years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there. It was a non-political speech, unless the following was politically construed: "The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers. . . . This incoming flood of prosperity, if it be guided aright, will enable you to add further to the beauty of this city and the comfort of its people." ¶ The welcoming ceremony, delayed a week because of Mrs. Hoover's father's death (TIME, July...
...pieces, four players. Mme. Halide Edib, Oriental feminist, sergeant in the Turkish army, once sentenced to death by a Sultan, arrived on the Aquitania, to address the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound...
...start of surprise. They were used to advertisements of automobiles, investments, shaving soaps. But they were not used to elaborate, detailed advertisements of champagne. As everyone knows, bootleg champagne in the U. S, market is priced at $10-$15 a quart. These beguiling advertisements suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron...
...admirable. But to the paternal superbankers, guarding the money market, it appears highly hazardous, deeply disturbing. Last week, the issue became acute, the crucial phase of the war of the bankers and the speculators. Clear were the battle-lines. Corporations contended simply that 5½% or 6% is better than 2%. Bankers argued: 1) that the money market will never be stable, settled, with such a staggering amount of money on call, likely to be withdrawn at any moment when the corporations may need it; and 2) that too much money is diverted to speculation, too little to the economic...
...fits, better than most, the gum-chewers' idea of a movie queen. They can call her a senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...