Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability was set up, last week, by the lifting of the U. S. State Department's ban of more than three years standing against flotation on U. S. capital of French industrial loans...
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. ?KIPLING...
...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...spring of 1922, Geraldine Farrar left the Metropolitan Opera Company and automatically several of the Farrar operas disappeared from the repertoire. Carmen lingered on, endured several musty performances and snuffed out like the rest. For Carmen may have a handsome Don Jose, a swaggering Toreador, a wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
Cheese. Kraft Cheese Co. and Phenix Cheese Corp. solved the difficult matter of preparing cheese so that they could be sold in convenient packages, and together acquired joint rights to important patents. Others who infringed those patents were sued and defeated. That left Kraft's President James Lewis Kraft and Phenix's President Jason F. Whitney free to discuss the mergers of their companies. Last week President Kraft announced that Kraft Cheese had bought the assets of Phenix Cheese, that it was forming a new company (Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co.) worth roundly $20,000,000, that he would...