Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excepting a few pieces of furniture, many a U. S. inhabitant has furnished his home with shrewd purchases at 5? & 10? stores. To these emporiums he has also hastened for Christmas presents and such luxuries of life as teacups, cookies, ribbons, bottle openers, pins, whatnot. It was announced last week that 14 leading chain store systems, chiefly of the nickel & dime variety, had made an average sales increase of 15.7% in 1927. The list, with value of 1927 sales and percentage of increase over 1926, follows...
...face, as he grew older, became more hawklike, sorrowful and astute. Not in feature but in its remote, speculative expression it resembled the face of a man who has worked in country fields, who has grown wise in bringing, to life out of darkness, many harvests of bitter, golden grain...
...Interested primarily in the aesthetic side of life," Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson, of the University of Chicago, last week held an exhibition of his paintings in Chicago. With his own hands Dr. Michelson adjusted against the wall 18 watercolors, twelve portraits in pen and ink. Said he, "Of all the oil portraits I made, I have destroyed every canvas...
...contract as Chicago's superintendent of schools because of charges that he introduced British propaganda into school histories. Dr. William McAndrew made known last week that he will become editor of histories for the Century Company, New York publishers. He made the announcement while giving a lecture entitled "Life Among the Boneheads...
PORGY?A Negro troupe giving the turbulent details of love, terror, and swift laughter of native life along the Charleston docks. (TIME...