Word: homed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every country (excepting only Russia) matches are distributed by one of the 225 subsidiaries of Swedish Match Co. Of every four matches, three are made in its home or foreign factories. Big customer of Swedish Match has been Germany, where the company controls 70% of the match production. Last month it was rumored that there had arrived in Berlin the man who is behind the great Swedish Trust, Ivar Kreuger, mainspring of Kreuger & Toll Co. which holds the majority interest in Swedish Match. As usual with Kreuger visits, his object was not known, his movements veiled in mystery. Germans wondered...
...general public, $2,000,000 and more (reckoning real estate and works of art) by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft. Again Fritz Reiner is conductor. The Minneapolis Symphony, under Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, favored first this year the twin-citizens of St. Paul, played its second concert at home. Again the orchestra will take a midwinter tour as far as Havana, and a spring tour, adding to its present total of 2,191 concerts. In Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan Symphony gave the first of a series of 30 popular-priced concerts. Dr. Henry Hadley, rarely inspiring...
...Trenton, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Hudak sued for divorce, said: "My husband set me to watch a mouse hole in our home. . . . I let the mouse get away and he beat me severely with a broom handle...
...Brooklyn, one Harry Pardee, printer, came home late, misplaced his key. Fearing to arouse his wife, he climbed to the elevated railroad station adjacent to his house, took off his coat, jumped for the roof. He missed, fell 40 feet to the pavement. Later the key, wedged in a matchbox, was found in his pocket...
...From a public telephone several hours later call the great man's home, speak for the jewelry firm, explain that the rings were delivered by mistake and that a salesman (name given) would call to whom, upon identification, the rings should be returned...