Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victory is his habit?the happy warrior?Alfred E. Smith," came the last words, then the crashing applause. Puffing hard at his cigar, Alfred E. Smith left the room. He returned later and did a few waltz steps to the broadcast blare of East Side, West Side. That evening's statement-to-the-press, not strictly accurate, was: "I heard Franklin Roosevelt and the demonstration and enjoyed them both...
...cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political power through the railroad labor unions. Then, with gunmen at his command, he pursued the "racket" of organizing other unions. Percentages of the dues kept "Big Tim" and his pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from...
...Menace, it must be rumored that he is: 1) so formidable that the heavyweight champion is afraid of him, and 2) crooked. Godfrey fulfills these conditions. He is very good-natured and always smiles kindly and hideously at his opponents. His larded body melts with any exertion, making him hard to hold in clinches. He has enormous strength and likes checked neckties, pork chops, going to the zoo, and resting. This week, after much palaver and two postponements because of rain, he climbed into a ring and mauled around with John Risko, baker-boy from Cleveland...
...once unbeatable. Everything depended on the doubles. Playing with Penelope Anderson, Miss Wills kept looking around nervously to see if she was expected to take balls that dropped in the middle of the court. Unsure at the net, she stayed in the back court, hit her drives hard, but kept putting them out or in the net with the result that she and her partner were beaten, 6-2, 6-1. This is the first time the Englishwomen have won the Wightman Cup since...
...this year; so clothing manufacturers have been buying as few bolts of cloth as they dared, and still be able to serve their retailer customers; so woolen and worsted weavers must cut their business close to demand; that leaves much machinery idle and forbids profitable increase of prices. Particularly hard hit in this way have been the three great U. S. woolen goods fabricators-American Woolen Co., Arlington Mills, Botany Consolidated Mills. The newly formed Wool Institute has not so far been able to help...