Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorable sites. In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money's worth. Enthusiastic, he cried: "There is no reason why the number [of stores] shouldn't grow...
...bums")?"You can't tell about bums. Some of us grow up and get refined and have our day. Then watch...
...that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns coal mines. After her husband's death, Jenny becomes the intimate friend of Isabel, whom, she realizes, her husband had loved more than herself but less than his lands. Then she watches her son grow up, go to war, come back to marry a frivolous pretty girl and tear up his father's fields to find the coal that lies under them. The story is perhaps less powerful than some of Author Kaye-Smith's previous charts of hard acres and dialectic heart aches...
...Lone Eagle is one of the more petty. It describes the aeronautical antics of an aviator in the late war who. disproves a rumor of cowardice by winning a desperate air duel and a French girl. Film directors are fast learning how to make fainthearted habitues of the cinema grow dizzy at the sensation of being high up in the air. In this, The Lone Eagle is successful. The Lovelorn. On the staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there is a lady, sometimes impersonated by a blue-jowled police court reporter, whose duty...
...face, however, did not grow less clouded with anxiety. Was it impossible that other Kresge shareholders, less sensible than himself, reading such a headline, might be too hasty to inquire as to the truth of charges before selling their holdings, and thus reducing the value of his? Or might they, as sensible as himself, not realize that patrons of Kresge's 5 & 10-cent stores, many of them people of small tolerances and high integrity, after hearing such a rumor of scandal, might well patronize some other emporium? Might not then the shrewd shareholders sell their holdings in view...