Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorer William Montgomery Brown, who a year ago told "Boston rocking-chair voyagers" of jungaleering in the Amazon hinterland among "a human race so low that other natives call them animal folks, of finding caterpillars tough eating," (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), told another one in his travel book published last week in London...
...sighed elderly Parisians, who remembered well the wartime antics of les soldats americains. Certain hotels and restaurants were made by a well-disposed government to standardize their prices in order to prevent profiteering. Police went around cleaning up the streets, arresting those "who nightly seek adven-ture," raiding "certain low class places." Declared Le Petit Bleu: "It is perhaps conceivable?with-out being excusable?that we might receive badly those Americans who came to France to amuse themselves and who wish in our noble, laborious country only those amusements not French except in name, and which the French unanimously despise...
Women Go on Forever. Since melodrama is what the public wants, Playwright Daniel N. Rub-in? will give it to them. He lops off a side of Mrs. Daisy Bowman's (Mary Boland) boarding house, where rents are low and hard to collect, to reveal a perfect spawn of loves and murders. Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into...
Bouncer. Lieut, L. E. Hunting's plane was guilty of treachery, but the flyer returned good for evil. Going into a tail spin at low altitude, the plane hit the ground, bounced, but somehow he held it in the air. Realizing the landing gear was crushed, he scorned the safety of his parachute, circled, flew to nearby Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.)' and eased the ship down so gently that it stopped virtually undamaged...
Baldwin Locomotive Works is capitalized for 75 million dollars and controlled by 200,000 shares of common stock and 200,000 shares of preferred stock. During the past eight months the prices of the common shares have been the amazement of the stock markets. They have sold for as low as $143.12½ a share, for as high as $261 a share. Apparently someone was seeking control, or a large say, in Baldwin Locomotive's affairs. Arthur W. Cutten, opportune Chicago grain operator, was known to be one heavy buyer of the stock. But last week it was learned...