Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives a life of almost ascetic simplicity, smokes the cheapest cigarets; lives in a quiet eight-room apartment decorated with old porcelain, with crystal and with Renaissance, 19th Century French and Smigly-Rydz oils; never wears more than one medal; rides early each morning; likes to stay at home with his charming, quiet wife, who does her own cooking and thinks the wives of Messrs. Beck and Moscicki are chronic climbers...
...consumers, Grade B milk delivered to the door in New York City at 14¼? instead of 13½? a quart-the highest price in eight years...
Colonymaid is the fifth textile plant that Rector Colony has established in the past eight months.* It all started last year when to Rector Colony's office under the rumbling Frankford Street elevated went a delegation of 55 unemployed hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke...
...cola drink of the U. S. (next to Coca-Cola). For the first six months of 1939 Pepsi-Cola had turned a net profit of $2,500,000, an increase of 76% over its booming 1938 figures. Last week President Mack ventured to say that for the first eight months of this year net profits would pass record 1938 (when the net was $3,240,000). Still selling far below big Coca's bottle volume (the trade's best guess: 18-25% of it), Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best...
Good-looking, poker-faced Helen Wills Moody, eight times women's singles champion, having tried her hand at tennis (with some success), at art (with somewhat less), finally decided to try it at a detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's singles champion, who faces Mexican Challenger Marie Azarin, at Wimbledon, only to have Senorita Azarin drop dead on the court. Significance: in Mrs. Moody's hand the racket is mightier than...