Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General," said a punctilious acquaintance, "come back and sit down. They've just put the Statue of Liberty in front of your place, carved out of solid...
Soviet reports of drought and dry winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
Last week it appeared that the B. & O. had waited too long, that another railroad had stepped in to make the Canton dream come true. For Canton was sold (price, $13,000,000) to American Exchange Securities Corp., investment affiliate of Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. Obviously the bankers were acting as agents, but for whom they would not state. After many questions, denials and guesses, however, it was stated, unofficially but definitely, that the purchaser was not Baltimore & Ohio but Pennsylvania R. R. Whether the Pennsylvania would keep Canton for itself or sell it to the friendly Wabash...
...appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music or the orchestration is part of the film, so that the "emoting" of cinema's musical accompaniments is more exactly timed and appropriate than ever. Now that the talkies have come, more than...
...three years past, the assistant organist of that orchestra had been one Helen Jean Moyer, 29. Last week she kept looking for another job, but found none. She went to her drab abode and sat by the window, despondent. She thought about suicide. The "talkies" have come, but Organist Moyer heard no knock on her own door. She waited awhile and then jumped, twelve stories down to death. The movies, the talkies, real life-they are quite different...