Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sure I'm in love with her," said "Red," kicking the gravel. "I guess that's why I'm down here. She's a big actress now in New York, you know, and I'm nobody, do you see. I sort of want to be somebody or do something...
...Robert Tait McKenzie at the University of Pennsylvania, who retorted that the average city dweller neglected his abdominal regions and hence needed organized exercise. And Dr. Eugene Lyman Fiske, medical director of Manhattan's Life Extension Institute, who scoffed: "Walking in the city is the greatest camouflage I know of. All you will get from it, with the possible benefits for the lower limbs in some cases, is flat feet...
Supporters of the institute include Marshall Field III, Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, Harold Fowler McCormick. They are businessmen and know the inducements of advertising. Hence in Chicago newspapers have appeared full page advertisements warning of the dangers of sexual promiscuities and of the ravages of venereal diseases, urging the afflicted to hasten to their doctors or to Institute clinics. President-Elect Malcolm La Salle Harris of the American Medical Association has recommended that Chicago take over the Institute as a social activity...
...most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does not ordinarily waste itself on the pit floor. When steel-cooks know their business, the brew from the kettle furnace pours not into the pit, but into a many-tonned ladle. Filled to its brim and slobbering over, the ladle is moved along over a train of flatcars in which ingot-molds stand up some seven feet from the car-floors. From...
...TIME, Jan. 21). JOURNEY'S END-Ten men in a World War dugout (TIME, April 1). LIGHT HOLIDAY-The brightest dialog of the season (TIME, Dec. 10). CAPRICE-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a merry importation (TIME, Jan. 14). KIBITZER-The preposterous adventures of a Jewish know-it-all in the stock market (TIME, March 4). MUSICAL Best light lines, legs and lyrics: Hold Everything, Whoopee, Follow Thru...