Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened in the Palestine relief muddle, arranged with quiet efficiency that the relief fund will henceforth be administered by the Jewish National Council of which he is chairman. Despatches sounded the knell of half-boxes of sardines, hailed the resurrection of fresh meat and vegetables...
...feared the Winter, gracious King . . . the Winter so terribly long and hard. . . . Gracious King, last Winter, half my children died. Ah, how I suffered! The youngest . . . my youngest child, your Majesty, died before my eyes of hunger. Six days and six nights I looked on ... and still lived . . . lived on ... and could...
...have been lucky to get $15,000 for his stock on October 29th. Goldman-Sachs' famed Blue Ridge investment trust which was to share in the entire sweep of U. S. prosperity was sold at $3 per share. Dozens of stocks of huge companies sold for less than half of what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed...
...Berlin, one Max Hinel, 22, n 5-pound cobbler, ate 75 eggs in ten and a half minutes, thus beating the former world's record by one egg, 90 seconds. Champion Hinel's training meals Consisted of two tureens of potato soup, 40 eggs or four pounds of preserved meat with bread...
...pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat in the meeting hall was noticeable to everyone. We afterwards learned that somebody had deliberately turned on the steam heat. A member of the local police notified the newspapermen that I was intoxicated. . . . Half a dozen different stories were carried back to me and each time my supposed degree of intoxication was so great that it required two men to hold me up. ... To my way of thinking, neither the tariff nor the farm problem were important factors in the determination of the election. In its broad...