Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...
...would seem as if the bull-dog must have fed himself full already this fall, especially after slaughtering the unfortunate Tiger a week ago. But John Harvard has within the past fourteen years beaten him so often about the head and shoulders that the bulldog's injured pride has filled him with an unequalled ferocity. In fact the air is full of uncouth growls and mutterings of "at least a three touchdown margin" and "forty-one to nothing or bust...
...Theatre has decided that it is oversexed. Fourteen plays (TIME, Oct. 29) plus various musical revues now current in Manhattan were intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...Fourteen thousand " panel" doctors serving 15,000,000 people under the British national health insurance scheme voted to strike Jan. 1 if a cut in their stipend proposed by the Government is ordered. Under the National Insurance Act adopted when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1911, five parties are concerned-insured workingmen, employers, insurance societies, doctors, the Government...
...sixty cents more per ton. Obviously, now that the voters minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot as he rounds a makeshift into...