Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keen readers of both stories last week were inclined to give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have felt last week that he, like William Randolph Hearst, had gotten just what he wanted for his readers...
...physiology and biology this quicker, more ample response to meats than to breads seems to confirm the popular belief that man is fundamentally more carnivorous than herbivorous. In gastronomy, the Philadelphia revelations indicate that for appetizers, hors d'oeuvre, antipasto, Zuspeise or a "chaw" of preserved beef might well be substituted for cocktails...
...bill known officially as H. R. No. 632, known unofficially as the White Act. Of its many sections, the 17th was destined to cause the most trouble. For it provided that U. S. radio companies and U. S. cable (telegraph, telephone) companies should never unite, if their union might "substantially lessen competition ... or restrain commerce . . . or unlawfully create a monopoly...
...Professional Executive, to handle its gigantic business. The professional executive is usually an importation from a company's financial backers, and the Metropolitan is, of course, nobody's toy train. Nor does Mr. Ecker belong to the small group of Dynastic Executives who inherit their positions. He might well be termed a "log cabin to White House" executive...
...Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., sat at a large mahogany table and ate an Edam cheese sandwich. Around the same table some 20 potent oilmen sat, discussed petroleum and how not to produce too much of it. To Sir Henri, munching his pungent delicacy, might have come memories of the days in which he and John Davison Rockefeller would have constituted an extremely effective quorum on world oil-questions. What battles he had had with the old Standard Oil! How well he remembered the time when, after Stand ard had given away kerosene lamps throughout...