Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave him no master narrative. But he did have the master stage comedian W. C. Fields, and between them they have worked out just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. It is a circus story of the little heroine brought up by the three-card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt, but W. C. Fields is W. C. Fields. If you do not think he is funny you had better have a thorough going over with a steam roller...
...crumpling them up in pockets and wallets. Very few carry big wallets that will take bills flat. Women wad and jam them into their tiny purses. Most men and boys merely stuff them in pockets where they are quickly worn out. Expert studies for 50 years have proved that cards or slips can be handled much faster if about the standard international card catalog size; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (just under 3x5 inches). We all know what a nuisance are the bedquilt Bank of England notes. Our the smaller bed-size is vastly more convenient. If this were again reduced...
Last fortnight, some 2,500 of the quiet, precise persons whose natural element is card catalogs, rubber stamps, sharpened pencils and orderly multitudes of books, gazed out of the windows of special railroad trains at the Rocky Mountains. At Lake Louise, Banff, Glacier National Park and other places they had located in bold print on the atlas, the travelers emerged from their cars, sighed with admiration, took snapshots, bought and addressed post-cards-"Dear Harriet: Just dandy out here. Wish you were with us. Arrived at 4:37 and leave tomorrow morning at 9:22. Love to all. Edith...
...best drawing card of the early rounds was in the women's singles-Miss Ryan against Miss Lenglen. Miss Ryan began with agility, won two games, almost won the third, and then weakened, lost, lost, lost, 12 games straight-and the match...
Determined to remedy this state of affairs, Richard E. Enright, New York City Police Commissioner, caused a card to be printed which he ordered every taximan to display in a prominent place in his cab. On it appear the photograph, thumb print and physical description of the driver, with the following warning to the passenger...