Word: etc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attached itself forever to big business. From chorines' skirts to names of buildings the world of affairs and butter and eggs does like brevity. So the halls of higher accounting which the Baker fund has erected in the shadow of the stadium have been succinctly named--A, B, C etc...
...Butler, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. (from 17 universities), Litt. D., Jur. D., D. C. L., Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Grand Officer of the same, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Redeemer (1st Class), Commander of Order of the Red Eagle, etc., etc., etc., President of Columbia University, Republican protagonist of Wets...
Colonel Smith is a Moose, Elk, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, Woodman, etc. He once managed Mr. Taft's Illinois primary campaign. He has been once a Congressman (1919). He often says: "I'm just an ordinary...
...tutting. Should William Randolph Hearst announce that he was writing The Life of Christ, many persons might be vexed. Many tut-tutted last week when "the Hearst of England," Lord Beaverbrook,* owner of the lurid London Daily Express, etc., announced that he is writing a biography of the Nazarene "in an arresting style . .. great reverence. .. sincerity ... will explain the Savior's actions...
...teas. If the concert is long, they rise and leave, bowing to their friends and murmuring goodbyes, and hurry away to scones and cinnamon toast and caroling kettles, leaving the music to make its swanlike end exclusively for the benefit of the ushers and those that have free seats, etc. Ah, if only Conductor Leopold Stokowski would treat these Friday excursionists as they treat him, lovers of music have said. If he would return their courtesy, the scene in the auditorium would be something like this...