Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supporting cast is above the average. For pure assinine slap-stick Jack Sheehan and Doris Patston would be hard to beat. Pierce and Harris, however, the skilled dancing team, win the most applause from the audience. Girls, girls, girls, with colorful futuristic settings and gay music, put the finishing touches to a production which is sure to satisfy the musical comedy appetite...
...campaign speech. Proudly its citizens led him through the shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with the company promising pay adjustments, but 300 union members were discharged...
Ergot is rotted rye. A fungus grows on the rye head and eats away the grains. What is left is a collection of hard bodies, each shaped like a cock's spur. Hence the name ergot, from French argot (spur). Good, dry ergot is of inestimable value in obstetrics. Its extract contracts the uterus and arteries, stops hemorrhages, raises blood pressure. Good ergot saves the lives and bolsters the health of hundreds of thousands of women annually. But bad ergot may contain poisons which cause abscesses and kill. U. S. pharmacists get their raw ergot from Spain, Portugal, Poland...
...Harmony Grove, Calif., one Henry Van Steenberger last week sat, on a bet, before ten gallons of wine. He quaffed, guzzled, bibbed, choked down more, sipped, strained, swallowed hard, until only a half-pint remained after three nights and two days of drinking "at one sitting." Then Bibber Van Steenberger lost his bet. He fell over dead...
...news nothing is too hard for the Times to tackle, nothing too high It financed Peary to the North Pole, is backing Byrd at the South Pole. Covering a suburban murder trial, it leased an entire house to take care of its correspondents, their machines and helpers. Automobiles, trains, airplanes, ships- whatever a Times newshawk needs he gets...