Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understanding of the patients that only one egg was allowed for breakfast . . . was justified, since only one egg per individual was placed upon the tables and the patients did not understand they might obtain another egg upon request...
...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...
Last week the American Federation of Labor came to Equity's support, saying: "Your cause is our cause . . . your struggle is our struggle." Equity opponents scorned this as bombastic "moral support." But Equity adherents foresaw that cinemas made by anti-Equity producers might be boycotted by A. F. of L. members and families. Hollywood technicians of all sorts are 'being unionized to help the Equity cause...
Contributor Funk soon contributed again. His next piece to get into print was "A Defy" to all the poets from whom he was frank to steal phrases because they "steal more than a plenty from me." In anyone but a colyum conductor that last line might have aroused curiosity. But Colyumist Phillips, discreetly dense, let things go along and two weeks later published the following, again signed WILFRED J. FUNK: WALL STREET WAILS...
...thinking. Night life? Man, for it I never was strong ; Really, I'm not a bit sporty; Yes, you are not in the least degree wrong-I am a shade over forty. Not until last week did Colyumist Phillips suspect that WILFRED J. FUNK might be neither a great name taken in vain nor a nom de plume. A casual but curious reader informed Colyumist Phillips that Wilfred John Funk is the name of a 46-year-old, married resident of Montclair, N. J. (Manhattan suburb). Montclair's Funk answers Contributor Funk's self-description...