Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber of such long standing as Dayton's Weston should know better than to accuse TIME of a grudge against anybody...
...convention was held, wrought one of those changes which no man could have planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press had viciously accused Smith of being in league with the milk trust, of starving New York's babies. Smith had answered, defied, publicly tongue-lashed Hearst, with Irish violence. Now, Hearst...
...Louis Groceries. Three Kohn brothers owned 42 Kohn (cash-&-carry grocery) Stores at St. Louis; Missouri-Illinois Stores owned no competing piggly wiggly, serve-self groceries. All 152 were merged for better buying and management...
...family recorded, and surely her name is Mary Garden. Yet it was not Mary Garden, the aged unmarried maiden. The name that appeared was that of a less spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world, last week left Manhattan on a boat bound for Italy. Ship news reporters watched her sail away...
...reviewing the lectures of today, the Vagabond finds a myriad which he believes would prove, if not interesting, at least not otherwise. But, after all, it is Saturday, and the Vagabond feels, and not without reason, that he must, lie abed in hopes of better times, which incidentally, he expects to accrue to him sometime this afternoon...