Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canada have observed that Ontario liquor prices are considerably lower than liquor prices in Quebec. Prices announced when Ontario became Wet (TIME, March 21) easily underbid prices in Quebec, and though Quebec has replied by issuing a new downward revision of its liquor tariffs, Ontario still claims the least expensive of Canadian thirsts. A comparative price list...
Said the Chicago Association of Commerce last week: "A study of census figures indicates that the centre of population and likewise perhaps the industrial centre of the country will remain within easy distance of Chicago for at least the next 75 or 100 years...
...think of the inference which could have been drawn had small Bruno mentioned only the King, or, worse still, only his father. No statesman, indeed, could have bettered small Bruno's tactful blending of filial and national loyalty. Skeptics wondered what smart Italian publicist had invented or at least polished the tale...
...them well-made, whose hips keep up with vagarious jazz rhythms by going three ways at once. Rang Tang unfortunately starts off with a plot about two dusky Harlemites who fly to Africa for diamonds. Unfortunately, because, although their escapades in the jungle provide opportunity for skits at least a thousand times better than those with which the two comedians are equipped, plot coherence is poison to African revues. They, like jazz, should be utterly lawless and naive. If the show is still in existence, however, theatregoers might do well to give it an evening for the sake...
...MALLETS?E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phrase "an English novel" has come to have a peculiar conversational significance. It connotes a fiction with a background unmistakably English, usually rural; with thoroughly British characters who are fond of animals, especially horses. The length of the book is at least twice what it should be were not the fiction "an English novel...