Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LOT AND OFF?George Randolph Chester?Harper ($2.00). A pleasant picture of the cinema industry as conceived by the average fan. The hero, gifted with a winning smile, infallibility, a flat stomach and gangle shanks, sells his services to "Magnificent Pictures" at an initial salary of one dime per week and progresses in nine years to the dignity of a divorce scandal and his life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles...
...politicians are a jolly lot. Democrats are no exception. What more logical than that bootleggers should strive to take advantage of the jollity of the Democrats? So to Manhattan went Prohibition Director Haynes, to spring a coup on the Democratic Convention by drying up the source of supply...
...more formal (and perhaps more efficient) direction of the Rev. Boyd Edwards. Lawrenceville is the bailiwick of Mather A. ("Bot") Abbott, a man who acts as he looks and looks as he acts?vigorous. He has taught Latin at Groton and coached crew at Yale. Exeter, biggest of the lot, is guided by the sweet sternness of Lewis Perry, a Williams College man, of the intellectual Perry family. Despite Mr. Perry, Exeter is popularly more famous for her quarterbacks than for her poets. Nearby is Andover, dignified by "Al" Stearns, who personally coached the Andover ball team for many years...
...lot of the oil dealer in South Dakota is not a happy one. Last year, during the period of crude overproduction, prices for gasoline were kept fairly high until Gov. W. H. McMaster intervened. So many of the oppressed farmers of South Dakota own and operate Fords and even more elaborate motor cars that the price of gasoline is of more than academic interest. The Governor saw the chance for a political ten-strike and he took...
...McAdoo victory in Florida was the election by a large vote of William J. Bryan as a McAdoo delegate. Counting Mr. Bryan, McAdoo men asserted that they would have 614 votes on the first ballot at the Democratic Convention. They even talked of nomination by the tenth bal lot. But the nomination of any one so early in the procedure was hardly a safe prediction...