Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped prevent the adoption of Daylight Saving Time in the District of Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded...
...Bloom had the victory. Charles Kramer of Los Angeles popped up with an amendment to provide Sol Bloom not with another $150,000 but with $275,000, so that every Congressman could have 2,500 copies of Bloom on the Constitution to distribute free. A roll-call was demanded on the question and Sol Bloom fretted nervously while the "Nays" rolled up impressively. But so did the "Yeas." He got his money by a close shave...
Last year some 1,600,000 doz. golf balls were sold in the U. S. at a retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other...
Settled around 1760 by a rich Frenchman and his New Orleans quadroon mistress, the 60-mile stretch of Cane River land was inherited by "free-mulattoes" who married New Orleans mulattoes, brought in French architects to build their houses, had their portraits painted, owned their own slaves. After the Civil War they had to sell out piecemeal to the present owners and antique-hunters, became sharecroppers. But they held on to their aristocratic traditions. To ward off outsiders, they married among themselves, had illegitimate children by itinerant whites, but kept strictly apart from Negroes. Almost white, fine-featured. French-speaking...
...brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father's Kansas farm, had four children, each by a different man, took to the road when Bertha was an infant. Bertha's "first playhouse was a box car." Her progressive education began early: her teachers were labor agitators, I. W. W.'s, prostitutes...