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...Grand). Both grew up fighting the old tobacco trust, both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos. In the early days of the century when American Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents. He won his fight, remained independent, was making a neat profit out of Edgeworth when his 10? idea put him into the cigaret business in earnest...
...love the Metropolitan Museum of Art!" said Pach last week. "My bitterest reproaches are intended to spur it on to a fuller realization of its important destiny...
...finish line is a large black box, invitingly open. At the starting signal a strong light is switched on behind the roaches, their covers removed. Mortally hating bright lights, the roaches run for the darkness of the boxes at the other end of the tracks. Last week's bitterest rival cockroaches were Mick the Miller, named for a famed British racing greyhound, and Man o'War, whose namesake was one of the greatest of U. S. racehorses...
...Bolshevism Run Mad," Bitterest in the fight was Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who has "retired from the House of Commons," was not campaigning last week, but poured the bile and venom of his scorn gratuitously on the head of his former friend & colleague Arthur Henderson, late Foreign Secretary in the MacDonald Cabinet, now leader of the Labor Party...
Most people liked the late Bill Fallon, but not even his bitterest friend ever called him unco guid. Author Fowler has put this sensationally journalistic biography of the lately dead (1927) Manhattan lawyer into the form of a novel; it reads like a super-Sunday-supplement-story...