Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations Scotchmen saw salmon swim up and down their rivers, saw small black-barred fish swim down to the sea every fall, scratched their heads without seeing any connection. One day the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeeper had a suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...
...Sylvester Walker, Negro, gave to Rose Redy, his lady-friend, a de luxe artificial left leg ($180, tinted to match her complexion). Attentions of other men to rehabilitated Rose inflamed his jealousy, so last week Sylvester Walker stormed into her home, demanded back his (her) leg. She called police, kept...
...season on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The Harvard team did not hit its stride until after the sixth inning, but its seven run rally at this time was not sufficient to overcome the commanding lead held by the visitors. Save for a disastrous fifth inning, the Tufts hits were kept well scattered throughout the game...
...Chace-a quiet man of mystery-millions, a man so quiet his name is not on his office door or in Who's Who. For years he was a dominant stockholder in International Paper and New England Power. When he obtained control of the former, combinations began. He kept in the background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace spokesman, figurehead...
Archibald Graustein was just the man Tycoon Chace needed to look after his interests. A turbine for work, a turtle for silence, enormously shrewd, Lawyer Graustein was given charge of International Paper five years ago. Consolidations, trade agreements, and his activities on the directorates of other Chace interests, have kept hard-driving Mr. Graustein busy day and night, but now the industrial empire of which he is chancellor is approaching romantic vastitude. Grausteinia is becoming Graustark.* In the imperial coffers lies a treasure to which the felicitous French have given a suitable name. Besides paper, Graustein of Graustark now deals...