Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when you find a red ear you have a right to give your best girl a kiss...
...award was a relief. For at least a decade even the Swedish press has been asking. "Why not Mann?" In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw. Last week's amends were handsome. This year the prizes bequeathed by the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, are larger than ever before. Thomas Mann will...
Chairman? As the delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives...
Where was Commendatore Jorio? Fascist police could not answer. So high had he sat in the spider web that he knew its every mesh, and was able to skitter out of Italy, even after the alarm was sounded, unchallenged by frontier guards. A thoroughgoing rascal, he had, it appeared, even cheated the Most Holy...
...told the story last week without naming the Cardinal concerned. On the afternoon before the crash His Eminence appeared with a cheque for 95,602 lira drawn on the account of His Holiness, and asked for the whole sum in clean, new banknotes, to be used in charitable distribution. Even Dictator Mussolini has not made many Italian banknotes clean. The Cardinal was not surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless...