Word: flake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe...
Last week the press brought news of Brother W. K. Kellogg out of the quietude of his life. He is Chairman of the Board of the Kellogg Co., huge foodmakers with a working capital in 1925 of $2,384,527; successor of the old Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co.; owner of the Battle Creek Toasted Flake Co. of London, Ont.; builder in 1924 of a $400,000 plant in Battle Creek; owner of plants in London, Ont., and Sydney, Australia; recent buyer of a plant of the Quaker Oats Co. and another of the Purity Oats Co.; owner of interests...
...take the offensive photograph. In this example of horrifying journalism there was the smell of an excuse, for the victim had not been killed-merely knocked down, internally injured, and fractured in the skull. There was life in the corpselike shape-all that was earthly of one John Flake...
...which is also the taste of those individuals who, appearing automatically like sharks or vultures when a killing has occurred, jostle one another for a glimpse of the body while the blue-coated officer pushes them back. Such people pored with great enjoyment over the photograph of the maimed Flake, of the dead Belinskys, enchanted that from their favorite newspapers that annoying phrase, "X marks the spot," has disappeared...
Applications for the Charles Henry Flake 3rd, Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge, England, must be filed with the President of the University by Friday, March 31. Lieutenant Fiske who was a member of the class of 1919, was killed in the World War, and the scholarship was established by his parent to permit a student to pursue his study for a year in Cambridge University, England...