Word: happier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Biscuit's showing of $9,406,000 against $10,036,000 was chagrining to the company. It represented only $1.37 a share against dividend requirements of $1.40. And it was the first interruption to the company's upward trend since 1915. A happier showing was made by Loose-Wiles (Sunshine) Biscuit Co. to which the period brought earnings of $1,067,000 against...
...Nearly every American woman that goes to Russia with her husband on business and stays any length of time returns to the United States an entirely different woman-and not a happier or better looking one either. They usually take to drink and a large percentage of those who have lived in Russia for more than a year are hopelessly addicted to liquor...
...Birds Sing bears out the popular notion that blind people are happier than the deaf. Ostensibly the heart-wring-ing autobiography of a poor girl who lost her hearing, this book reads almost like a parody of the o-pity-me school...
Happy was Governor Horton. Happier still was Col. Lea who viewed the House's action as a turning point in his own political tide. His attorneys assured him he would be quickly cleared of the indictments against him at Knoxville and Asheville, growing out of the Caldwell & Co. crash. He expected shortly to get back his Memphis Appeal and his Knoxville Journal which have been in receivership. Then he would start battling again against the Crump faction of Tennessee Democracy, attempt to regain his lost political ascendancy in the State. Gradually in the public mind a distinction was being...
Said Mr. Warren: "Nearly every American woman that goes to Russia with her husband on business and stays any length of time returns to the United States an entirely different woman-and not a happier or better looking one either. They usually take to drink and a large percentage of those who have lived in Russia for more than a year are hopelessly addicted to liquor...