Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without attempting to enter into what has been called the explosive zone of fire in connection with tariff policies. It is quite evident that some good patriots are fearful lest the proposed European economic union on the one hand and the increasing industrialization of the United States with resulting protective tariffs on the other, will bring about obstructions to the flow of goods between Europe and this country. To this fear, the reply is that, during the post-war decade, a period marked by unusual activity in readjustments of this sort throughout the world, the foreign commerce of nearly every...
...extremely rare piece of the collection is a group of 36 pages from the manuscript of "Pendennis," entirely in the hand-writing of its author, Thackeray. One page contains three original sketches, labeled "George Washington," "General Bonaparte," and one unnamed. There are six original rough and traced sketches, in pencil and pen and ink, of illustrations to "Pendennis," all by Thackeray...
...musically inclined, there will be a new musical comedy as well. "Carry On" with Jack Donahue in the leading part will be at the Shubert beginning next Monday. The Albertina Rasch girls make a skillful chorus, while Lily Damita is a convert from the movies who will try her hand at a new type of acting, and should add considerably to the aesthetic appeal of the show...
Some small percentage of the uninvited guests systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen devotees of Bacchus; and still others persist in destroying the pleasure of the game for those who find that one of these soiled ragamuffins has usurped a neighboring seat...
Curley Pickett has been a farm hand for the last two years in Corsicana, Tex. Before that he was an elephant trainer for the Al. G. Barnes circus where his special charge was Black Diamond, a land elephant. Last week Farm Hand Pickett, learning that the old circus was coming to town, invited his employer, Mrs. Eva Donohue, to see Black Diamond. When they arrived at the circus the elephants were being unloaded. They stood by and watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over...