Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beechnut. P. Lorillard Co. (Beechnut chewing tobacco) is not infringing the trademark of the Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut chewing ' gum, candies, ham, peanut butter, etc.) - decided the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Said Mr. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Lorillard Co. is at least as well known to those who do not despise tobacco as the Beech-Nut Co. is to its refined customers." Bathtub Trust. Eight members of the so-called Bathtub Trust last week paid the U. S. Government fines totaling $169,000; had their suspended sentences of six and ten months changed...
...Diehards' overweening confidence that the Government will secure a second term of office at the next general election will soon prove a fool's paradise. It's as plain as houses that at least 60% of the country will be against them...
...military judges, sitting in stiff gold braid upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at least an orderly confession. It was useless. Signor Zaniboni was not to be suppressed by an iron cage, much less by a gold-braided judge. Reporters gasped at his daring and wrote with racing pencils...
...youthful creator might have derived satisfaction. Had he been dissected with pedagogical thoroughness, he might have emerged a more famed innovator. But this light touch with which Manhattan dismissed, this unsurprised appraisal through a lorgnette, means the kiss of death for the percussion symphony, in the U. S. at least...
...futile to cavil at trifles! After the first five minutes of your visit to fairyland, Iolanthe and her sisters will have captivated you completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...