Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year (three quarts for every person in the U. S.) reported to the Department of Commerce that more than half their customers demanded vanilla flavor. One-tenth would take chocolate, one-twelfth strawberry. The remaining customers took the various flavors put together by the dispensers. One-eighth ate brick cream, seven-eighths the more familiar bulk. Million a Day. Speyer & Co. with J. & W. Seligman & Co. bought 245,000 shares constituting control of Victor Talking Machine Co. from its President Eldridge R. Johnson a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 20). In ten days the stock went up 40 points, bringing...
...University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary of P. B. K.'s united chapters, presented the building to William & Mary College and all soon swarmed through the three-arched brick edifice, admired the fireproof chamber for P. B. K. memorabilia (a replica of the famed Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where P. B. K. was founded 150 years ago); the guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There...
...Dramatic Club has got to rehearse somewhere else, and decide its location very quickly. It has been suggested that the choice fall upon Parke Snow's vacant store on Massachusetts Avenue, but at present just where the Dramatic Club will move its papier-mache brick walls and scenic archways, and its Three Oranges is a secret...
...ways of writing biography: one, to emphasize the human character of whoever is being portrayed, delving into his mannerisms, his emotional constitution, stray scandals and so forth; the second, to deal with the man in connection with what he accomplished in other words, to regard him as a brick in the structure of things rather than as a human being. Both these books are written with the second purpose. To Mr. Bradford, Darwin is the work he did; to M. Clemenceau, Demosthenes' personality is not worth a tenth the space demanded by his significance in world history...
...Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler has been caricatured as beseeching Heaven to send the President and Mrs. Coolidge to Northampton, to cast their votes. They expect...