Word: dropping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Long ago when little Manhattan girls-they wore flounces and frilly ribbons then-wanted peppermint drops they went to Huyler's confectionery store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker...
...lead me to the conclusion that there should be a temporary breathing spell in construction [of office buildings, hotels, apartment houses] throughout the U. S. . . that accommodations may not become abnormally in excess of demand. I wish to make it plain that I do not look for any radical drop in the volume of building. . . ." Owners of properties already constructed cried acclaim; owners of undeveloped real estate were dismayed. Said Metropolitan President Haley Fiske, knowing Mr. Straus' wide influence: "I am glad to see that the attitude we have maintained for a year is at last being recognized...
...Freshman statistics show a drop of 101 men in comparison with the report of last year when 935 Freshmen and provisional men were examined...
Provided the mercury takes a decided drop, the 1930 hockey team will open its season when it faces Milton Academy at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the schoolboy rink...
Suppose that Wisconsin decides it is time to drop Minnesota, all that will be necessary is for the Wisconsin paper to print the jail record of Joesting, Nydahl, Almquist, Hanson and Hyde. Or if the Gophers are getting tired of going to Madison the Gopher publication can print pictures of a flock of Wisconsin men pulling taffy...