Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cut a long, inch-wide strip of hide from a freshly killed rhinoceros. Let the strip age a little and toughen. Then have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
...multitudinous editions, moved Doré's giant and magnificent Satans. Few were the homes a generation ago which were without Doré-illustrated literature. It is in Engraver Doré's vasty terms that most people who still believe in a personal Satan, now visualize him (see cut...
...packs for a quarter, one pack for 13?. At Atlantic & Pacific chain stores, indeed, a carton (ten packs) of 15? cigarets is sold at $1.14, and R. H. Macy & Co., famed price reducer, offers the carton at $1.09. Thus the "list price" of the largest selling cigarets has been cut a penny here, a penny there, and several pennies elsewhere...
...that Schulte directors were selling their Schulte stock and that Wall Street knew that Schulte earnings were shrinking before Schulte stockholders had any suspicion that all was not well. To them Mr. Schulte replied that no common dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that one of his stores, fighting the devil with fire, had cut 15? cigarets to 11?, that "retailers are going to make a legitimate profit or none at all." Should this 11? policy be followed at all Schulte...
...base hits Gilligan. Williamson Three lase hits Woods, Donaghy. Prior Stolen bases Rocker, Rigsbec, Blesh. Tickner Gilligan, McGrath, Batchelder Struck cut by Whitmore 8, by Lipp 5. Passes on balls Whitmore 4. Lipp 3. Wild pitch Lipp. Passed ball Oliver. Double play Whitmore, Donaghy, Prior, and Donaghy Umpires. Stafford and Halloran. Time...