Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature or science or social work who could have moved freely among us to give and take the best of either nation. This was not to be, and in the selection of Sir Ronald Lindsay a plain hint is given that the British Government expects to do a great deal of important business with...
...Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them with a profit of $1,875 on each...
What a first team backfield that would be! Among them there's not a thing in the game of football that Booth, Marsters, Cagle and Murrel can't do and do it well. You couldn't do a great deal better if you had the whole country as a field to choose from...
...weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed. And then again in such cases as the second team fullback berth, few would argue that the team would be a great deal weaker with Holy Cross's stalwart leader Stewart Clancy filling...
Whereupon no less than three hundred consecutive dramas with a backstage setting have been produced. The screen critics who are betting men make a comfortable living offering eight to five that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses...