Word: flours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this...
...pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch a fine...
Died. Emil Bacher, 71, king of the Hungarian flour industry; in prison at Budapest; of apoplexy. Borrowing ?1,500,000 to fight the Chicago Wheat Exchange, he lost in a year the colossal fortune it had taken 50 years to amass...
...Harried by life, the storekeeper distrusted all men, but most of all, those who worked in his store. He never allowed John Shedd to make change for a customer. On the long counter, polished and fragrant with the memory of countless bags of coffee and packages of flour and chocolate pushed across its surface, John Shedd did up his parcel, tool: the customer's coin, and stood waiting for his boss (who was usually occupied elsewhere) to come and get the change out of the cash-drawer. Time was wasted; customers grew impatient. One day a woman make...
...talker, gangling, circumloquacious George Harvey with his big Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke in Pennsylvania, learning business methods from his grandfather, flour merchant and distiller of famed Overholt Whisky; George Harvey as a reporter, working for the New York World, managing editor...