Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Getting his goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...loop dive, other scenes of the same gangsters being converted "to the religion of Henry Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford) and a blue-nosed SAINT PIERPONT (Morgan). From an organ suggestively marked...
Mopping Up. The colonial secretary in charge of Britain's Palestine mandate is famed Economist Sidney Webb, Baron Passneld. Last week he instructed the British High Commissioner at Jerusalem, Sir John Chancellor, to take steps for "the collection of evidence before it disappears" as to whether the Jew-Arab clashes which began last month at Jerusalem's famed Wailing Wall were "spontaneous or pre-conceived." This evidence will be sifted by a special British parliamentary com- mission, created last week by Baron Passfield and chairmanned by Sir Walter Shaw, recently Chief Justice of the British Straits Settlements, a colonial jurist...
Said Writer White: "The Texas Tammany boys not only tell the taxpayers to go to hell, but, out of the goodness of their hearts, provide them with a handy route in the shape of a heavily bonded high- way and a costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...
...your personality. But they are useful only to the extent to which they affect the people you come in touch with. Thus decided Yale's Mark Arthur May, trying to develop a scale to measure personality. Zero would be a person who does not count for anything to anyone. High grade would be he whose presence or absence has the greatest influence on others...