Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great in the U. S. is the urge to merge. In Europe, the cartel is the current charm against business ills. Members of a cartel agree to such things as fixed production quotas, a single retail price scale, exchange of patent rights, standardization of parts, etc. A cartel often amounts to a monopoly of an industry and sometimes extends across international boundary lines...
Lando's resultant activities were most distressing to another family group, headed by Salvo, a wealthy social climber, who prospered on unscrupulous control of Sicilian sulphur mines. Salvo had an insane wife, a jovial old-maid sister, and an invalid daughter, Dianella, of delicate charm. Having married off the old maid, sight unseen, to the prince, Lando's widowed father, Salvo, aspired to bind himself yet closer to the aristocratic Laurentanos by marrying Dianella to Lando...
Texas Guinan's Mimic Helen Morgan's Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks...
...Sullivan than the malleable resistance which they offer to amateur performers. When last week the Play-Arts Guild, a Baltimore organization, ventured to put Patience on Broadway it was not unnaturally anticipated as a case of murder for no profit. Yet the old operetta retained its airy, foolish charm. The girls of the chorus, it must be confessed, were pretty though perhaps not artful dodgers; and if the principals were at times too violent, their merry unconsciousness of this fact, fitting the good-humored mood of the piece, did much to allay the defect...
...soon itch to do more than edit. They remembered that he brought Greece into the War on the side of the Allies, although Greek King Constantine was brother-in-law to All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm. At the Peace Conference it was in large measure due to the peculiar, enticing charm of M. Venizelos that the Allies were persuaded to increase the territory of Greece by 3,200 miles and extend her frontier westward to within 20 miles of Constantinople. Such a man is most potentially dangerous when he seems to be doing nothing of importance. Therefore, few Greeks were really...