Word: item
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chrysler Corp. has gone into the low-priced field with the throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...
Keenest excitement kindled over the last agenda item. It flung on the carpet the major issue of contemporary Russia-the issue between Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin and the great Communist whom he has exiled (TIME, Jan. 23, 30), famed Leon Trotsky, creator of the Red Army. Stalin stands for the more reactionary and Trotsky for the more revolutionary elements among Russian Communists. Stalin and Trotsky both claim to be the "intellectual successor" to the late Father of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Lenin, whose words are still the guiding oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief...
...Intruder was composed by one Paul Eldridge with the following ingredients: Item: water adrip wears away stone, rain pitpat on roofs often melts morals. Item: since Aesculapius, physicians have seduced, been seduced by nurses. Item: wine stirs passion. In the office of Dr. John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience...
Nominee Smith answered Editor White's remarks item by item and then announced that he would answer no more erroneous attacks upon his legislative record. Editor White stood corrected but added: "The undertakers are looking wistfully right now at three members of the United States Supreme Court, and with Al Smith as President we should have in that Court . . . three distinguished, learned, respectable lawyers . . . [who would] declare the Eighteenth Amendment unconstitutional before a cat . . . could wink her eye. . . . Smith's leadership comes from the amalgamated Tammanies of our great cities. . . . Shall Smith Tammanize America, or shall we Americanize...
Propaganda. The first item of Hooverizing publicity was a report, probably exaggerated but meant to illustrate the famed Hoover efficiency, that to save time and reduce cost, Nominee Herbert Hoover buys his suits six at a time, hats three at a time, shoes by the dozen, collars by the gross...