Word: lump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Gate Park Zoo, San Francisco, one Percy Hayes, 17, visitor from Stockton, Calif., ignored the warning signs on the cinnamon bear cage and poked his face up to the bars better to watch the beasts eat the lump sugar that he was tossing them. One bear nabbed the boy and inquisitively pawed his face. Two dirty claws pierced his eyes...
...much is Publisher Hearst worth, not as a citizen, but in dollars. It would be modest to start at $25,000,000 for his string of magazines. It would be modest to add $20,000,000 for his biggest moneymaker, the New York American. It would be modest to lump his 20-odd other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely...
Leaving the convention, Mr. Davis stopped at Pittsburgh to visit his parents, to tell them how he almost became a candidate for Vice President. With a lump in her throat, Mother Davis said to Father Davis: "David, if you had only been willing to come to America when I wanted you to, we would have had a Vice President in the family...
...plays reviewed, and sketched through hastily till I came to Gentle Grafters when I must say I was horrified with these lines: "The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe?it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat...
...little moth, a little singe" and it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat when a young girl surrenders her virtue? To be sure it is only a picture, but is it teaching the young and innocent girl, even though she may be called a "flapper" that it is "only a little singe" to do this? Is your reporter lending himself to the support of such a false theory? Is is possible that it is not known what the first downward step means to a girl, and that in life where such a thing happens...