Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weed out the real news from the "hand-outs." After weeding, weekly warnings will be sent to all Association members, to all newspaperdom. Whenever possible, Weeder Ford will scotch unworthy publicity schemes at their sources. First a few "offenders" were singled out to be mentioned, and then the list grew and grew until it seemed to include most of the famed producers of the whole U. S. But no mention was made of two of the oldest, most experienced groups of players in the game-the cinema industry and the hook publishers...
...Once the Champagne was a wine-growing land. Red and white wines grew there, wines of charming tint. . . . But when in 1670 the sinister cellarer of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, Dom Perignon, as baneful a man as the monk Schwartz, inventor of gunpowder, created explosive wine and fiendishly invented the skullduggery by which the honest wines of Champagne became the favorite drink of debauchees, at one blow he ruined the honor of his country and made it prosperous...
William A. Grew is the playwright who prepared this gallimaufry of old notions. The ancient, familiar ingredients are many in number, confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful...
...Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...
...Graphic circulation grew, so did the Winchell fame, the Winchell salary. But the salary-growth was not rapid enough to suit the ambitious gossip purveyor. I And said he: "I was willing to stay with the Graphic because of the amazing liberty I enjoyed, but I became unhappy because of a double cross about money." This year, he said, the Graphic promised him $300 a week, 50% of syndicate receipts. Neither the $300 nor all the 50% forthcame, Winchell related. But in his desk was a contract with the Hearst organization for a weekly salary of $500 plus...