Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood Control levy this year, or $201,000,000 if Flood Control is postponed. More still, the manufacturers took square issue with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, whose insistence on a far larger tax-cut than the Administration approves is frequently represented to be the voice of Industry...
Abie's Irish Rose. Six years ago, as everyone knows, a play by this name opened in Manhattan. The critics, with two exceptions, sneered at it. Cut-rate seats and distribution of free passes kept it alive for the first month. Then it began to take. One man (Brander Matthews) did say it was "a perfectly constructed and played comedy." Another man and two women saw it seventeen times. During the second and third years of its run, fashionable folk flocked to it after dinner parties. In the middle of its fifth year, after 2,400 performances on Broadway...
...this time; anyway, they can say they started and if they feel tired they can drop out. Before the pack had gone far over the smooth hard road winding toward Boston several had sat down to feel their feet and before the race was half over the pack was cut in half. And still Ray stepped out on his toes, grinning...
Clarence H. De Mar won the race. After him tottered Henigan, up among the winners at last. And after Henigan came Joie Ray, running on his toes. He didn't recognize his own coach, Johnny Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension...
...Reynolds cut the wholesale price of Camel cigarets last week. Immediately, Liggett & Myers did the same with Chesterfields, and American Tobacco with Lucky Strikes. Retailers who formerly paid 11.29 cents for a package of 20 cigarets now pay 10.58 cents. Retailers who before sold two packages for a quarter, now can sell two for 23 cents...