Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Camden alone has been the scene of Campbell's soup harvest. But even as last week the fragrance of tomatoes drifted through Camden's streets, a new Campbell Kitchen was getting into production in Chicago. As yet the Chicago Kitchen is barely under way, but it covers 22 acres, will have eventually a capacity as great as that at Camden, not to mention the advantage of being one thousand miles nearer the millions of soup-bibbers who dwell west of the Mississippi River...
...Even as one who had only seen an ordinary smithy cannot imagine the anvil chorus when the workshop of the gnomes is operating at capacity, so one who has seen an ordinary kitchen has no idea of what the operations will be in such a kitchen as that newly erected in Chicago. To get the full picture in advance, one must go to Camden, see the manicurist who inspects the fingernails of 4,000 workers, see the herds of living turtles weighing 200 or 300 Ibs. apiece brought up from the Caribbean to make a special brand of soup that...
...Dance of Life (Paramount). When Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Waiters wrote the play Burlesque, they somehow extracted, the maximum amount of sentimentality from a story which was even then not altogether new but which became for the first time extraordinarily successful. How a loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production...
...reader can read vicariously, Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...
...dictionary do readers of average U. S. newspapers need for such journalistic jargon as sugar daddy, love nest, heart balm, torch murder. But last week the epigrammarians who write U. S. head lines were confronted by a phrase which even they could not grasp without assistance...