Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Songs (Warner). The sob that rose in Al Jolson's throat as he sang beside the bedside of Davy Lee in other pictures has grown louder, deeper. Now that sob, heard round the world, constitutes his whole repertory. In Say It With Songs he sings in jail, torn from his young wife, his little son, caroling to fellow-prisoners about the birds, the springtime. He has accidentally killed a fellow who was making advances to his wife. As soon as he is free a truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework...
...climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning. Nurtured on this gift of Providence the mills of Lancashire have grown until they now number close to 2,000?for the most part, small, ugly mills employing a few hundred craftsfolk in each...
Another idea of his was "A Business Man's Plan for Settling the War in Europe," developed in 1915. The nations ignored it. But some of his suggestions have grown into the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War proclaimed at the White House last week. However the civilian honored by invitation to watch the ceremony was not Charles L. Bernheimer. but Salmon Oliver Levinson, also a Jew, who has developed similar thoughts more strongly, more largely (TIME...
Passenger Traffic. Railroad passenger traffic has steadily declined since 1921, but every month since November 1928 the rate of decrease has grown smaller. Railroad men feel that passenger traffic has reached its minimum, will improve in the future. As 60 passengers can be hauled in the same coach and at the same cost as 30, an increase in passenger traffic would be very healthy for net incomes...
...Jason had been a long baby, and had grown to six feet before he was eighteen. He was beyond that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such bulk as only a giant could uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus...