Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago, Democrats searched high and searched low for candidates. This year a candidate confronts the Democrats-Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York. But is he high or is he low?-that has been the vexing question. If and when Governor Smith is nominated, astute hindcasters may point back to last week as a turning point. For of all "high" Democrats none is higher than Newton Diehl Baker, Wilsonian War Secretary. And last week Mr. Baker said, not only that he admired Governor Smith, but that he knew the nomination would be "an entirely creditable...
...remote stamping ground of the lamas,* is not a native Mongolian but the child of an unfortunate white woman. She, Takla, on reaching maturity, is discovered by an English explorer who takes her rapidly away to India. Here Takla is not a success. Her social value becomes so low that the sister of the explorer, hearing that he intends to marry his discovery, has her kidnapped by an immoral blackman. Only the extraordinary resourcefulness of the scenario writer makes it possible for Takla to evade both the unpleasant death being prepared for her in the lama monastery and the imminent...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...
When Fred L. Lavanburg, Manhattan color manufacturer, died last November he bequeathed $750,000 to the Lavanburg Foundation to provide comfortable homes for the families of low-paid workers. By low pay he meant a total family income of $25 or less a week. Speedily his executors set to work abuilding an apartment house to accommodate 120 such families. Suites were to contain steam heat, electric lights, private baths, gas ranges, ice boxes-"all modern conveniences." Last week the executors dedicated the building. But no 120 families with $25-a-week incomes occupied the rooms. The executors found barely enough...
...Diego. Leo Diegel from far away, frozen White Plains, N. Y., holed a 50 foot putt on the home green to win the first round with 67, five under par. When famed professionals from all over U. S. had completed 54 holes Diegel's score was still low, 214. For this the San Diego Country Club stuffed $1,000 in his Christmas stocking...