Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the corridors of Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, Sailor John Davis last week gingerly shuffled. On his swarthy, Africa-tanned face, was a look of puzzled anxiety. Internes watched him; nurses watched him; busy surgeons paused for an inquiring word. Sailor John had a funny looking fibrous ring around the base of each little toe. He did not know what caused them. Perhaps on his recent job of exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called...
Supercilious, smart-Alex fiction writers have taken occasion from time to time to throw jibes at the department store of the U. S. They have tried to make dry-goods men, furniture men, carpet men, glass, china and home-fixture men look funny. But last week they had their answer. "Where would the American home be without the dry-goods industry?" was asked, and well and fitly answered at the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan...
Robert W. Pogue (President of H. & S. Pogue Co., Cincinnati): "We look for a very good spring business. . . . There was a nice increase. ... The people have more money and the tendency is today for people to spend money for quite a few luxuries. We notice this because we deal in many of the higher-class lines of merchandise...
...There are 25,000 Americans who are active in Turkey. We are glad to have them. The best manufacturing firms have branches in Turkey. They are very hipful to us, and we look up to them. There are perhaps ten Turks active in America, and we are gaining a lot of valuable experience. What we want is just what America is doing for us, and what Britain can well do for India and her other dependencies. The East is through with slavery now, as the West was years...
...went on, are the most striking thing about you. They are like your buildings, whose minimum height seems to be ten stories. You are a young country. Europe is a continent of tired people. Its civilization is old, but it is also in a state of total fatigue. We look to America, and so does Europe, for the maintenance and addition to new ideals...