Word: ladens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassadorial secretaries were soon ferreting about at Mexico City's newsstands and bookstalls. Back they went to the embassy laden with all magazines and novels "which seemed to promise thrills or mysteries." The hot sun soared over Mexico. Mr. Morrow lay among the big pillows reading. As the afternoon shadows lengthened, a secretary was again seen passing through the murmurous streets to the newsstands, the bookstalls. The gnomelike figure among the pillows, habituated to reading rapidly through complex business and legal documents, had used up more detective stories before sunset than most men could read in a week. "Almost...
...HEAVY LADEN-Philip Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). The Rev. Hugh McGreggor, lion of the Lord, cleaned up a saloon-ridden Ohio town, survived two flesh-and-blood wives and one great War, and reaped as reward a luxurious country-club parish in the "Gilt-edged suburb of America." His pulpit thunderings were consistently concerned with Faith, and helped considerably to deaden his own still small voice of doubt. But Ann, his modernist daughter, suspected him of puritanical hypocrisy, and flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life...
Furious was the rate of trading all last week on the New York Stock Exchange. Many a trader had been bearish, gambling on the probabilities that prices would fall. Of this, shrewd men laden with money were fully aware. They bought stocks and in such quantities that the bears could not supply. Shares of the Radio Corporation of America were particularly and peculiarly in demand. One Michael J. Meehan, Manhattan broker, bought and sold them for Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago and the Fisher brothers of Detroit, who managed a sort of corner in R.C.A. stock. Its price, consequently, rose...
...experiments, contributed must of the machines and are sending a granite cutter to work in the model shop under typical condition. As Professor Drinker's special field is ventilation, he expects to conduct most of his researches in this line, with the view of cleaning out the dust laden air in the shops before the workers have had time to breathe...
...complete calm amid which the French Chamber opened, last week, for its last sessions prior to the general elections in April. The Government of Premier Poincaré won easily a vote of confidence of 310 to 227 on an issue of party politics which had been deemed dynamite-laden, and serene progress loomed in the Chamber while frenzied electioneering began outside...