Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rudolph Spreckels, head of Spreckels Sugar Corp., great refiners, had suggested the sliding scale sugar tariff and obtained for it the President's cautious approval. Complex in operation, its purpose would be to stabilize the retail price of sugar at 6? per lb. (present price: 5?). The tariff would run from 1? to 2.4? per lb. As the retail price of sugar went up, the tariff would go down and vice versa...
...former Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, now a grizzled, crop-lipped campaigner with 25 years' service in the Conservative ranks, was led last week to the Chair of the House of Commons. Solemnly following the ritual, Capt. Fitzroy made "formal gestures of protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings...
Amanullah shook his head and said...
...hand one day and told him she liked him. When he humbly tries to follow this up, she turns on him angrily with: "I'm not so hard up I got to walk with scarecrows like, you!" She certainly is not "hard up." The toss of her head, the swing of her hips as she walked away from Jencic, bespeak an alley queen who can pick and change her lovers as she chooses...
...Tarrytown-on-Hudson', N. Y., last week announced flying as a new study for her girls next autumn. No other girls' school is known to offer such a course. Director of instruction will be Roland Harvey Spaulding,* Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at New York University and head of the Curtiss Flying Service ground school at that university. Proclaimed Miss Mason: "All pupils at all times will be accompanied by a chaperon...