Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unhesitatingly some 10,000 gentlemen of Verona signed last week Roberto Lops's petition begging Benito Mussolini to order that: 1) Women's dresses must not be translucent, close fitting or low cut. 2) Elbows must be covered. 3) Stockings must be some other color than "flesh." 4) Skirts for "young girls" must extend below the knee, for "young ladies" below the calf...
...survey of the various companies offering cut-rate transportation facilities shows that there are approximately 350 men signed up to make the long trek, with prospects of many more before November...
...pleased at the success of the project. He says that Harvard alumni generally, and especially those in Texas, will enthusiastically approve of this game. "What we particularly desire," said Mr. Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters, and we indulge the hope that this football game will quickly...
...baton whisked into the air last week, cut a circle or two to release the sombre sounds of Schumann's Manfred overture and in Manhattan an important audience settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began...
...Fitkin & Co. $26,801,327 for control of Pacific Public Service Co. which, besides peddling ice, ice cream, water and cold-storage space in southern California, sells gas and electricity to a large population just south of San Francisco Bay. Because by such means they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus of howling protest. They could not afford to build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe...