Word: fares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five-cent fare maintained--Saving of over $420,000,000 to the traveling public in the past seven years...
...definite conclusions. One article created the impression that the road could have been saved by Government intervention. This was subsequently denied by high officials in Washington. To summarize the fundamental causes for the St. Paul collapse would require much analysis of a statistical and eco nomic character-heavy fare for newspaper readers. The occasion for the failure was provided when the road's bankers refused to refund the maturing bonds which forced the insolvency. This action can, in turn, be interpreted according to the taste and fancy of the interpreter. The next Congress may wel: make a special investigation...
Recompense. Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...seems he deceived the lions by false pretensions on the bill of fare and at this time there was no pure food law. MORRIS SCHAYE...
...oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl as long as yu think wize that wud be folod now and then by short one. . . ." In this sentence, the word "long...