Word: householders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nebblepredder, that is to say these Nebblepredders, were poor Nebblepredders. Their hope and true salvation was Elmer Nebblepredder, who earned $20 a week. Other Nebblepredders nibbled at his salary ceaselessly, particularly Ma Nebblepredder, whose false teeth took a $200 nibble and then wouldn't dent her edibles. The Nebblepredders household therefore was in a pretty needless state of meddling. Enormous difficulties, such as spelling Nebblepredder on the telephone, tumbled endlessly about their heads. Despite credible acting, the squabblings of so many nettled Nebblepredders were slightly sedative. No medals for the Nebblepredders...
...Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate if the Proposal is ever taken seriously. A drawing on page 20 reveals some of the difficulties involved in the production of the Decameron. The whole Boccacio household is pressed into service to find some dirt for the use of the head of the family. We are not told what connection this has with the Reading Period, but the inference is obvious...
...Imperial Household Ministry proclaimed, last week, that this year the set subject for its Spring poetry contest will be: The Coloring of the Mountain Becomes More Brilliant. From among the thousands of poems sure to be submitted the best will be culled, and-by way of "prizes"-will be read in the adjudged order of merit to His Majesty, the Sublime Tenno, descendant and Son of Heaven...
Drugs. President Louis Kroh Liggett of United Drug Co. recommended to his stockholders the merger of their company (one of the largest chains of drug stores in the world) with the Sterling Products Inc. of West Virginia (largest producer of household remedies in the U. S.). Com- bined assets would...
Well aware of these facts, David A. Schulte, tobacco store potentate, is entering the trinket store field on a grand scale. With an investment of $35,000,000. of which $10,000,000 will be preferred stock, he plans to establish at least 1,000 stores selling household utensils, wearing apparel, books, miscellany, at prices from 5? to $1. Already he has five henchmen scouring the U. S. for favorable sites. In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money...