Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always these public services have been rendered with a private distinction which has marked "Evergreen" hospitality. There, a dinner menu elaborately inscribed on a gold-bordered card is set in a little gold holder before each guest, that he may gauge his appetite. And, dinner done, guests may wander through a library where tier on tier of precious old books are the envy of every bibliophile...
...Cooler." The loud-speaking of Senator Couzens raised the temperature in the Finance Committee room but nothing was done to discipline him. Just as the opinion began to spread out of Washington that the Republicans framing the tariff bill were demoralized by the heat and the problem before them and, leaderless, were voting every which way, it was announced that the new cooling system in the Senate had been completely installed, that the equivalent of 350,000 lb. of ice per day would be "melted" to keep that chamber comfortable and steady its occupants' wobbly nerves, when the Senate...
Suddenly last week the U. S. threw an arm of protection about Citizen-Killer Harris, removed his case from the State to the Federal courts. Private Oklahoma citizens inquired how this could be done as Harris was no dry agent. U. S. District Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught put his fingers over his lips, whispered: "Private Government regulation...
Today, of course, it is possible to make artificial "cotton spinning weather" anywhere. The thing is done in Germany with conspicuous success. But in Great Britain the early concentration of the cotton industry in Lancashire has only been intensified with time. The evils of stagnation and "oldfashioned methods" are chronic in the region, seem as immutable and familiar to Englishmen as the names of the world famed cotton towns...
Into the extremely select circle of U. S. corporations whose annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...