Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?" 'R' You Listenin'? is a book of extracts from "Tony's Own Philosophy," sermonets which he sometimes broadcasts. Typical excerpt...
Diego Rivera is only an excerpt of his name. His Mexican parents had him baptized Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody ever called him anything but Diego Rivera, though many critics call him the greatest mural painter in the western hemisphere. If he is not the greatest, he is certainly the largest. His bulkiest rival. Joseph Urban, tips the scales at 230 Ib. Mural Painter Rivera displaced 250 Ib. the last time he was weighed; friends claim that he has expanded greatly since then...
Strenuous advertising copy is ready for launching next week. Excerpt: "Forceful as Rockne himself was forceful; practical as he was practical; stirring as his influence was stirring." The Rockne Six (the trade quickly called it the Rockne Coach) will sell at two prices. One model will compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, marking Studebaker's entrance into the low priced field. The other will sell in the Pontiac and Essex range...
...Hougfiton Mifflin ($1.75). Excerpt: "America . . . A Mad Country ... In a country boasting millions of machines, storerooms are bursting with goods; corn is burned in place of coal; milk is poured into the river. . . . What does this mean? Have people lost their senses, or what is the matter? . . . Why is this done? Who profits...
Wanted: An Apology. When President Hoover read this statement in his morning newspaper, he was wroth indeed. He gave his temper nine hours to cool. Then he issued to the Press an answer, a challenge and a demand to the Navy League. Excerpt...