Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packaged in Pure-Pak, a container made of spruce-fibre lined with paraffin. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea stores were also said to be interested in Pure-Pak milk. Milk bottles cost between 4? and 5? but make 20 trips at an average cost of about ^ a trip. The paper con- tainer costs from 1¼? to 1½?, makes only one trip. But it is much cheaper to deliver milk in paper than in glass. A 1½-ton truck (heat insulated and requiring no ice ) can deliver 2,000 quarts of milk weighing 4,000 lb. The same...
...Beethoven sonatas, edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel, peerless Beethoven interpreter (Simon & Schuster, 2 vol., paperbound $5, clothbound $8). Pianist Schnabel contributes valuable fingering and pedal indications, argues over controversial points in long scholarly footnotes printed in French, German and English. Supplementing such conventional markings as forte, pianissimo or con expressione are Schnabel's own suggestions. Examples: "No hurry, no precipitation," "avoid all restlessness," "serious, somewhat gloomy, always arguing...
...recent election resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Democratic candidate and as National issues were vigorously discussed pro and con, President Roosevelt and his advisers have every reason to feel elated and to have renewed confidence in next year's results...
Though firm believers in spiritualism and implacable non-believers may not be swayed by anything they read, for persons willing to hear from both camps two new books were at hand last week containing excellent statements pro & con. One author is a Baltimore-born Johns Hopkins psychologist who does his ghost-hunting with affability and scientific guile. The other is an elderly, dead-earnest, British-born spiritualist who has written some 70 books and papers on psychic phenomena, now heads the American Psychical Institute. All that the two books have in common is that both are readably written and each...
...where he had a two-picture con tract which His Family Tree completes, kept photographers from meeting his train. Reason: six years ago Barton's face was badly scarred in an automobile accident. All pictures of him have to be retouched. Before he acts he uses many layers of grease paint, reshapes his nose with putty. Like all old-line troupers, he tried to take a hand in stage-managing his pictures. This brought on arguments. One day he almost quit because it seemed to him there were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time he got into...