Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind rose to a 45 mile-an-hour gale. About midnight the envelope of one Navy blimp began to part. Hastily the rip cord was pulled and a bagful of helium was given to the hungry wind, which dragged the sagging ship 100 yds. and cast the basket damaged to the ground. Toward dawn the nose of the other Navy blimp began to pull away. Hastily another rip cord was pulled, another bagful of helium returned to the elements...
...Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal proportions that in the first ten months of 1928 U. S. citizens bought 53.230,000 pounds of Japanese cast-off cotton clothing, valued...
...Metropolitan's Boris, critics have complained, is Chaliapin with accompaniments. Moussorgsky's stark music is played in the prettied version of Rimsky-Korsakov. The chorus, the cast all save Chaliapin, sing in Italian. He, proudly a Russian, sings the language in which Boris was written, the language of the down trodden peasants. Being Chaliapin, the greatest of living singing-actors, he dominated last week as always...
...been criticised for failure to proclaim in loud tones that stock market inflation is hurting U, S. business by making credit rates high and borrowing expensive. If the Market is on the way to running over a steep cliff into the sea, why have not the bankers endeavored to cast out its speculative devils? One reason, say cynics, is that the brokers are excellent customers...
...reporter of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Evening American, this latest of novels on the life of a modern scribe has very little to recommend it. The story starts nowhere, gets now-where. The style is tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the most Moronic cast. Attempting, evidently, to give an impressionistic picture of the emotions of a rather sensitive reporter in the pay of a sensation-trusting city staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads...