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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, while the happy bears frolicked among the blossoming foamcups, the Guzzlenots descended upon them. The Guzzlenots were dour fowls with shark teeth and clanked a mean blue beak. Their feet were wide and webbed, their necks rubbery and curving. They could not abide the Staggerbears with their crescent smile and ruddy, joyful blossoming noses, their boozy roars and capers...
...seem a difficult game. I am five feet eight, can go upstairs quite fast without getting out of breath; and walk a good many miles every month looking for jobs. I haven't been able to find a job lately; and Mr. Blake's $10 would mean a lot. I am really very, very active. I am sure I could win. Will you tell Mr. Epstein? Tell him I will even split the winning with him; but I cannot split the loss...
Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young...
...their novelty for playgoers. Time was when a Belasco production, correct to the last curl of cigaret smoke, was considered just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study of a high-strung virgin much in love with her sister's husband. The resulting tale of how she smashed his home with hysteric lies is another portrait of the sex-starved woman. There...
Clad in royal purple and flinging, if reports may be trusted, a mean forward pass, the Crusaders of Holy Cross will invade the Stadium today to resume hostilities with the Crimson eleven. The whistle will send the rivals against each other at 2.30 o'clock...