Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most imperiously for him who would dare. And if fruit...
...distributed cartoons of Mayor Hague and was arrested. He spoke on the steps of Jersey City Hall and was plastered with eggs, tomatoes, green goods. He spoke in front of Mayor Hague's apartment house and was arrested again. His employer dismissed him for engaging in politics but he said: "If I can help end the domination of this machine.and reduce taxes in Jersey City so that I can sell real estate, I will be satisfied." He called Mayor Hague "grafter" and "political coward." Mayor Hague took no action. Then Mr. Burkitt lost his voice. "I guess...
...editorial flaying the U. S. press for not recognizing the epic achievement of a Chinese student of a Methodist institution of learning. Said the editorial: "We are glad a Chinese girl won the honor. Had some society woman, sponsored by some rich party, done this deed, volumes of front pages would have come...
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...five very various organizations, the show was composed of properly variegated inclusions. There was nothing in it of breathtaking excellence; Albert Laessle's Billy, a statue of a capricious goat, was much admired by visiting children. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, whose Appeal to the Great Spirit, stands in front of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sent in several small bronzes; Richard Recchia showed his Frog Mountain. There were, perhaps, too many fat little boys squirting water and too many totally unimportant garden decorations...