Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sebastian Spering Kresge think Prohibition worth $500,000 in one lump? Cynics might suspect that it was because people who spend dimes and nickels in saloons are more likely to spend them in nickel-&-dime stores if there are no saloons...
...this question of tax-exempt U. S. properties. Tax Assessor Richards' figures showed that if all taxable U. S. property in the District paid the present rate of $1.70 per $100, the total would be $7,990,000. The U. S. at present pays the District a lump sum of nine millions, less than a quarter of the District's running expenses. District commissioners think the U. S. should bear 40% of the District's running expenses...
...frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...Brooklyn, Ruth Galfas, 14 months old, caught a greedy chunk of banana in her windpipe; her father Hyman, frantic, ran with her to a drug store, was intercepted by Patrolman Francis Ryan. Patrolman Ryan, calm, dislodged the banana lump; the baby seemed dead. Patrolman Ryan, resourceful, put a handkerchief over her mouth and breathed down her throat for 20 minutes. She revived...
...Wallace Beery struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...