Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson said, 'So you have been an organizer in Wilmington? Have you your credentials?' I showed him this card. He said, 'Well, I have one similar,' and he took it from his pocket...
Outside of the clash in the Stadium this afternoon, however, the interest of football followers turns mostly to western fields. Two great conference games are on today's gridiron card. Wisconsin will try to stop its traditional rival, the powerful Michigan team, while Illinois, conqueror of Pennsylvania journeys to Chicago to meet the strong Windy City eleven. All of these teams are dangerous contenders for the "Big Ten" title and today's results should carry the combatants several steps nearer a decision for the recognized Middle Western supremacy...
...citizen. Though many have essayed to deal out Menckian blows this season, nothing on the current stage satirizes so incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale production as applied to the spiritual side of life. He will get men into his church if he has to run prize fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles...
...question of British Labor's "going Red" seemed once more definitely remote as the conference refused to debate affiliation with the British Communist Party by a "card vote...
...There are two types of buyers that have always been a puzzle to me," said Mr. Cole yesterday. "One of them is the man who pays a dollar for a membership card and then buys about three or four dollars worth of merchandise all year, losing 60 cents on his investment. These men take out their membership cards religiously season after season...