Word: high-class
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...Ware radio did suffer a temporary eclipse, but it was only temporary, and it is far from dead. The new Ware Manufacturing Corp. has been actively engaged in development work during the past two years. Last year it marketed a small line of high-class receivers entirely representative of the Ware reputation. . . . The Ware company has the nucleus of a strong distributor organization throughout the important sections of the U. S., and is now in production on the Ware Bantam, a diminutive receiver which we will all hear a lot about in the next few months...
...blandly explained: "That place is an exclusive section. . . . Provided the new owners dispense the same high quality of liquor as handled by the present proprietors there is no reason why that should not make $40,000 a year, taking $10,000 in Christmas week alone." He said the difference in the advertisement between business done and what a "live wire" might clear was not protection money. Said he: "You don't have to pay when you run a place as high-class as this...
...Fannie Brice had her own nose remodelled in real life, in Atlantic City, 1923-The august New York Times celebrated the occasion with one of its extremely infrequent wisecracks: (the nose) . . . "was condemned and torn down and a'high-class modern structure erected on the site." (TIME...
...Visiting lectureships and exchange professorships are much in vogue here; and rightly; by them, as by no other method, can an immediacy of view be obtained. Yet the permanence of a liberal curriculum can be assured only by the quality of the permanent faculty. No annual turnover, even of high-class instruction, replaces the constant inspiration of able teachers who have become adjusted to the University, and whose understanding of the purpose of such study is supplemented by their competence to supervise...
...Mississippi River where some of our good neighbors in the East seem to think the climate unlivable, the 'wild jackasses run rampant,' where the buffaloes still eat our cabbages in our gardens and the Indians scalp our children on their way to school, nevertheless can raise high-class stock and grains of all kinds. . . . North Dakota is rapidly forging to the front as a highly diversified farming State...