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...House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. (medal winner in international competition 1927): $505,553 against...
...every time he saw him; he made many friends, some of them newspapermen who spread his name across their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby...
...wired innards. Then he, others also, at the Level Club blew whistles of those assorted tones to which the dunderhead had been attuned. It pulled a rope that raised a flag that covered the painted face of George Washington; it raised a telephone receiver; it set a vacuum cleaner and electric fan going and the Masonic audience applauding...
...year ago the hack-writers who produce "true stories" and "confessions" were told by their employers to "lay off the sex stuff." This applied chiefly to seductions and attempted seductions. A cleaner substitute was wanted, partly because of fear of censorship, but essentially because public taste was changing. Heart throbs, steadfast virtue, outdoor heroes, wholesome homes, human interest stories were selling like hotdogs at a horse race. They became the order...