Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of considerable respectability. In spite of this (perhaps because of it) profits were inconstant. Burlesque competition, movie competition, changing conditions in the whole amusement business forced changes. Colored shows, straight dramatic shows, strange hybrids he added to his wheel. Yet, owing to enmity of the Mutual, the gamble grew for each. Sam Scribner decided to stop trying to outclass the field and absorb it. This done, he becomes chairman of the United Burlesque board, will now devote much of his time to golf. President of the new combine will be able "Izzie" Herk, long a leader in the business...
Indubitably the friendship which grew up between the two men had much to do with the rapid rise of Robert Clarkson. In 1921 he was made a vice-president, in 1925 a director, vice-chairman of the executive committee, an assistant to the president. With these pebbles in his pocket, it surprised few astute financial observers to learn, last week, that he had picked up one more...
...came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected by the British public. For a few days Thomas Hardy grew stronger. Then one early evening last week after signing a check and reading some of Walter de la Mare's poems, Thomas Hardy died...
...quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were a solemn whisper always ringing in his ears like the sea's slow music echoing in a shell. It is easy to believe the legends of Hardy which picture him as he grew up writing love letters for illiterate or ineloquent country ladies; sitting in thatched cottages hearing farmers tell the stories about old battles that had once stirred their brief clamor in the endless quiet. When he was 16, Thomas Hardy was articled to a Dorchester architect...
...face, as he grew older, became more hawklike, sorrowful and astute. Not in feature but in its remote, speculative expression it resembled the face of a man who has worked in country fields, who has grown wise in bringing, to life out of darkness, many harvests of bitter, golden grain...