Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheat. The spectacle of a hot iron sinking into the white contours of Pola Negri's left shoulder- blade should be 50? worth to anybody. If it isn't there is little else in the picture to make up the deficit. Pola starts out in Paris, where she makes two errors of judgment. She incurs the displeasure of a nasty old Hindu; she marries an American newspaper man. The latter's salary, served as a double portion, Pola finds unsatisfactory nourishment. The Hindu re-enters and trouble begins...
...succeeding days various units of the U. S. Steel Corporation and other steel mills changed from the two-shift (twelve-hour day) system to the three-shift (eight-hour day) system. In this way was carried out the promise of Elbert H. Gary, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, that the abolition of the two-shift system would " now " begin. The first changes following Mr. Gary's promise took place in the vicinity of Chicago, at Gary (Ind.), South Chicago and Joliet...
...Edwards fell in love. And Sonora Jack and the Lizard did their best to raise H?1?but, H?1, what could they do against the forces of Virtue? The mysteries of Marta's parentage and Hugh's suspected crime were all wiped up?the Mine with the Iron Door discovered ? Natachee had an opportunity for several symbolic orations?and "in the blue depth of the sky a wheeling eagle screamed . . . Natachee . . . smiled." So did Mr. Wright. Also D. Appleton and Co. Likewise, every bookseller and train-news-agent in these United States when they heard the good news...
What will be the six or the ten best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing...
...MINE WITH THE IRON DOOE?Harold Bell Wright?Appleton...