Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hello Towns! Editor Anderson has collected editorials and news stories from his two weeklies, pitched them together with a few running comments, and produced the book-a-year which his enterprising Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing...
Trading in shares of American Telephone & Telegraph last week received a new impetus when A. T. & T. closed at 2341, giving the company's 13,132,154 outstanding shares a book value of more than three billion dollars. Standard Oil of New Jersey and U. S. Steel have stock valuations of more than one and a half billion, but only General Motors ($3,675,750,000 common, and over four billion with common and preferred) exceeds the A. T. & T. figure...
There is perhaps, subtle psychological reason why the first of January should be singled out from amongst all the other days of the year as a time particularly appropriate for the making of good resolutions, for the not always congenial matter of turning over a new page in the book of life. No doubt it is because it is the only time known to man when the first of a month and the first of the year coincide, and that impelled by the year coincide, and that impelled by the double action of both of these useful but in themselves...
Professor Fay achieved the spotlight last fall with his two volume book on the "Origins of the World War." It was written after an exhaustive study of hitherto concealed archives and documents and is the most definitive work yet published on the subject...
...Herbert finds to be afflicted with this touchiness are domestic servants, policemen, civil servants. Americans, Mussolini, clergymen and plumbers. To which the Lampoon, no doubt, would add Princetonian and the House Planners. But nobody's touchiness will be outraged by the current Lampoon. It is a monstrous fat book, the fattest in all Lampoon history, and it is a parody of that strangely sportive new child of Boston. The Sportsman...