Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Australian Premier, twice wounded in the War, is the political hero of the Antipodes. Although a Cambridge graduate, he owned a dry goods firm and belonged to the Labor Party. The War came. He founded the Nationalist Party, fought with the Royal Fusiliers, went to Geneva, startled the League of Nations by a brilliant plea for disarmament, returned to Australia, succeeded (when ex-Premier Hughes had failed) in effecting a coalition against the Labor Party, became Premier, remained young...
...appears that the experienced London bankers, J. Henry Shroder & Co., intend to establish a branch in New York, to engage solely in the acceptance business. The firm, organized in 1804, is one ot the most famous international houses in the world, and in London a leading security underwriter. It is also active in Continental Europe and South America. Although of German origin originally, Shroder & Co. has by virtue of its long British associations become practically a British firm in sympathies and outlook...
Lawyers noted with interest that the firm of former Premier Viviani of France appeared on behalf of Mr. Frank J. Gould when he unsuccessfully sought a temporary injunction to restrain his divorced wife. Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall. Henri Robert appeared for the defendant...
Here is a situation which deserves the intervention of the authorities. It would be a matter of no great difficulty for the college to give one firm a contract for all student moving, at a specified price for each piece of furniture. The amount of work to be done would make such a contract profitable, and would reduce greatly the cost to the individual student. And the moving could be charge on the term bill on the report of the hall janitor, just as readily as the telephone and electric light bills...
...wrote light verse and lighter prose. He was a burlesque writer for the Republic Theatre in San Francisco. Before John V. A. Weaver was out of short pants, he had written The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum and other poems "in American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot of one of his yarns with the greatest relish. He enjoys the working out of detail...