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Today, tomorrow and every day, what we most want for cur girls what they most want for themselves is your recognition of the telephone girl for what she is an earnest daughter of industry, eager and faithful in your service, a dependable personal part of the machine which makes this good old world of ours go round. Between Ourselves New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, November...
...least two kisses and three burning looks. And even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita
...days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they...
Many years ago the Brazilian Gov ernment undertook a policy of "coffee valorization," which in simpler English means rigging the world market for coffee, of which Brazil is the chief producing nation. Every now and again, high prices thus established would cur tail consumption and encourage large production, and a large surplus would result which would have to be held off the market lest its sale smash the artificially high prices...
...rounds of the British Open Championship, last week. Lumbering Cyril Tolley would come by; British Amateur Champion Robert Harris (TiME, June 8) ; slouching Ted Ray, the long-driving professional; lank Arthur Havers, Open Champion two years ago, his lips pursed over the putts; clever Charles Whitcomb, whom a stray cur attacked at one tee and sent out of the play with a lacerated hand...