Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. George T. Stallings, 63, of Haddock, Ga., oldtime baseballer, the man whose skill raised the Boston Braves from bottom to top of the National League in 1914, and won the World Series; at Haddock...
Cartoonist Percy Crosby, who is Skippy's medium, risked a good deal putting the young man into a novel. And from the nature of the writing, it looks as if Mr. Crosby means to risk more yet and have a cinema Skippy. The result so far, however, is only added testimony to Skippy's greatness. In spite of a Plot and a Social Thesis, which Mr. Crosby has introduced because most novels have them, Skippy stays about the same. He does not get selfconscious, as proved by the fact that in 335 pages he only utters once...
...spokesman about the beat of the hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
...branches throughout the Middle West. And when, last week, "Ohio Sam" an nounced the formation of Ungerleider Financial Corp., a general investment trust, the potent names of William Fox, head of Fox Films, David Bernstein, treasurer of Loew's, Inc. (Fox subsidiary), William Crapo Durant, motor-and market-man, and Louis S. Posner, of Jonas & Neuburger, attorneys,* were among those associated in the enterprise...
Entrance of Mr. Ungerleider into the brokerage field in 1919 was prompted by some unfortunate experiences as an outside investor. During his early business career, Mr. Ungerleider had been a distiller, getting into the liquor business. When still a very young man, he went to work for a saloon keeper and in two years owned the saloon. Selling out his distillery business with the approach of prohibition (1919), Mr. Ungerleider tried to retire, found the burden of leisure too heavy to endure. He began to play the market and quickly discovered the expenses of that pastime. He soon decided that...