Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema and threw the action up on the bony heights of a rising skyscraper. From there followed reels reminiscent of Harold Lloyd's Safety Last-a considerable amount of entertainment. Of course the prize fighter wasn't really a prize fighter, nor was he an iron worker on the dizzy girders. He was a millionaire in disguise. But a millionaire can fall off a narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather...
Railways, iron works, the post and telegraph services and agriculture were in a much better position this year than last, he insisted, but emphasized that some time must pass before the first four were on a firm financial footing. As regards agriculture, Mr. Smith said : "The Hungarian land is a great possession and Hungary is very fortunate to be able to support herself by it." The prospect for the 1925 crop was the very brightest...
...Arthur Machen-Knopf ($2.00). "I find I disliked many things in 1906," says Arthur Machen. Among them were: utilitarian literature, big business, the novels of George Eliot and Airs. Humphry Ward, Puritanism and its offspring, Protestantism; the inky rivers of the city of Manchester, drains, dogmas and all the iron altars erected to that latter day simulacrum of the Golden Bull of Tyre-the Industrial Ham. As Dickens' behavior toward Dissent was once described as that of a man who takes up a noisome fungus, smells it, makes an inarticulate noise of disgust and throws it away, so Arthur...
...splendid functions?one a conference on town, city and regional planning, led by the American City Planning Institute, the other the annual exhibition of the American Institute of Architects. They pinned debonair ribbons, blazoned with the word "Guest," upon their lapels; stone men cemented up their differences, iron men welded their friendships, plumbers soldered sound opinions with a friendly pipe, draughtsmen were seen slipping away, arm in arm, for a draught. At meals they listened to famed speakers: Harvey W. Corbe President of the Architectural League, Manhattan; D. Evert Waid, President of the American Institute of Architects; Robert W. DeForest...
...past week provided a cross word puzzle of great difficulty to those numerous folk who attempt to detect tendencies in business "early in the day." Stocks faltered, bonds firmed, sterling rose, iron and steel contracted and dealers hesitated to place anything but small orders. Anyone who wishes to deduce any consistent conclusion from these happenings is welcome...