Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens who are weary of bridge, ping-pong, cards-in-the-hat, yet who cannot endure the strain of an evening without a game in some form, were last week offered a new and original pastime invented by so famed an author as Norman Angell, British economist and pacifist. Called The Money Game and published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in the unique form of an explanatory book bound with a box of cards, the new entertainment purports to combine the thrill of cards with instruction in finance...
...words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question would be put directly to the people...
...build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe-lines and could not, therefore, be sold; the big operators would profit at their expense. To win over the little fellows, California's seven largest producers! offered to form Co-operative Gas Conservation Association which, supported by $230,000 a year from each of the seven, would provide facilities for pooling and recycling excess gas in the large fields...
...known to be heavy speculators, received margin calls, left brokers' offices muttering threats. Dynamite was thrown into the home of one Charles H. McCarthy, manager of a brokerage Credit department. Stench bombs were tossed into the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, E. A. Pierce & Co., Logan & Bryan. "A new form of wolf has invaded La Salle Street," said the deputy police commissioner, ". . . The racketeer who responds with a bomb when he is called for more margin...
...school the millionheiresses will balance books, study stock-picking, learn to discriminate between a swindle and a sure thing. But, "As it is not the object of Webber College to fit women for secretarial positions, it does not include any form of shorthand writing in its curriculum...