Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seizing, singlehanded, the 18-man crew and $500,000 liquor cargo of the S. S. Grey Point, British rum boat, one night last month in New York Harbor, Charles L. Duke, temporary ensign in the U. S. coast guard, was last week commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, by firm strokes of the presidential...
Died. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 39, fishmonger, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass. (see p. 10). Died. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 53, naturalist, painter of birds; from burns and crushing in a grade crossing motor accident near Unadilla...
...Rudyard Kipling is said to be the only high grade poet alive whose poetry royalties alone would keep him warmly clothed, well fed, adequately amused...
Recalling these facts, the significance of Charles A. Whelan's statement last week becomes apparent. He announced that the Union Tobacco Co. will buy from the American Tobacco Co. a number of its higher grade and costlier cigaret brands. Later Union Tobacco will buy the right to manufacture other expensive brands from other manufacturers. Of such costly cigarets about 34,000,000 are sold each day, the customers being not particular about their brands. Union Tobacco will try to concentrate this "floating" consumption on a few brands which it will "puff" with $10,000,000 of advertising to be spent...
...Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston) accomplishes by marrying Tod Gilbert (Neil Hamilton), who has come all the way from Niagara Falls to make his fortune as a song writer in Manhattan, never realizing at first that "Broadway may seem on the level, but it's a steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will...