Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South American Government officials, who are amiable about hand-kissing impressionable U. S. clubwomen, hastened to assure the delegation that the treaties will receive early ratification. When the caravan reached Argentina last week it had secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their...
When the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was approved by Congress last summer it established a U. S. Maritime Commission, empowered it to manage U. S. shipping and to investigate and report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning...
As far back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets...
By disintegrating in the tub, inferior materials cost laundrymen some $6,000,000 a year; dry-cleaners some $16,000,000. And even the best rayon must be washed and ironed differently from silks if it is not to be injured. Women's clubs as long ago as 1920...
Five hundred milligrams of nicotine, if taken in one dose, are fatal. Anyone who smokes a package of cigarets a day breathes in 500 milligrams of nicotine every week. Whether this gradual dosage does harm may be debatable, but few are the smokers who would not leap at a chance...