Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperous late winter. However, the year's busiest season is immediately ahead. In contrast to this industrial quietude, money is plentiful. Therefore the values of securities have risen, as people have insistently sought outlets for investments. Because such investors are. willing to accept low interest payments, they snatched at U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's offerings last week of $450,000,000 Treasury certificates paying 3⅛% and 3¼% interest, and at new 3½% five-year treasury notes. Their eagerness will help the Government save $25,000,000 yearly interest payments on Second Liberty...
...tried all the other forms of the drama even low comedy, the counterpart of modern musical comedy." Nor is Shakespeare in modern dress anything novel, for the playwrights of today in many cases merely change the lines of his works, and label them as new productions...
...local Government inspector, J. M. Carey, approached, hat in hand, spoke in low voice to the Premier. The mine was full of poisonous gasses. Rescue work, even in gas masks, was too dangerous. The inspector had ordered that no one should go down in the mine until the fumes of explosion should be pumped away by the electric ventilators. Any other course was madness, said Inspector Carey, but the wives and families of the entrapped men were getting restless. He could not conscientiously advise the Premier to remain with his wife in that vicinity...
...thrifty and shifted classes, for I have provided rooms at rents they can afford. Each tenant pays down $1,000 to $1,700 cash, and thereafter $64 to $100 monthly. Eventually he will own his apartment outright. All this I have made possible by financing the construction at exceedingly low interest rates...
...mother. The climax is heavily emotional. Since first seen 18 years ago, it has never failed to draw tears. With this play, Miss Frederick came before her English audience. When the curtain was rung down, women were seen weeping-almost hysterically. Pauline Frederick has a low, beautiful voice, dark, tragic eyes, a well-proportioned figure, slightly more matronly than it was a few years ago when she was a symbol of beauty. In cinema she has recently been cast as the suffering mother. The English critics thought her at least equal to Mrs. Pat Crimpbell. Ellen Terry, in their most...