Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Within the memory of living men, 65-year-old George Ade was accounted one of the three brightest boys in Chicago (the others: Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon, Howard Hackett). From a reporter on Chicago's Record George Ade rose to the level of "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known...
...giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful princess but the Erskine cow had no more inclination for weddings than Composer Gruenberg had had for projecting his score over or even on a level with the Erskine book. There being no profound emotions to express, Composer Gruenberg made no profound attempts. People who remembered the modernistic tendencies of his other works, his Jazz-Suite and Enchanted Isle, were surprised at the melodic simplicity of the Beanstalk score. Most of the music had the smooth, deft...
...Harvard were to enter such a league she would have to alter her policy of playing only one game away from home each year. He emphasized the beneficial consequences for the game if such a league were restricted to colleges which consistently keep the game on a high level and refuse to subsidize athletes...
...year has seen a reverse trend. Electric Power & Light shares dropped sharply last month, when the company sought to raise $21,000,000 from stockholders. Simms Petroleum made the unique gesture of offering stockholders rights to sell 12½% of their holdings back to the company at a price level with the market. And last week when Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. announced plans to raise much-needed cash from its stockholders there were angry mumblings, threats of legal action...
...spent in a pursuit of education unhampered by the necessity of cramming for June College Board Examinations. Here was a reasonable provision for the ability of the student of outstanding scholastic promise, the man of such talents that it was detrimental to his education to keep him on the level of his ordinary classmates. It was a recognition of the fact that a year may be more profitably spent than on cramming to make sure of high-stand entrance examinations...