Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming in again, and consequently manufactured tobacco is on the gain. One feature of the tobacco industry sometimes overlooked is the snuff business, which is also gaining in popularity. Little snuff is now inhaled through the nostrils in the old-fashioned way; instead its users, especially male and female mill-hands, rub it on their gums...
...That the principal competing country in the case of wheat, wheat flour and mill feeds is the Dominion of Canada...
...representing authority and tradition, comes in contact with the new woman, straightforward, honest to her own standards, but determined to be controlled by the standards of no one else? Augusta Ruyland is the woman of the old type. She is the head of the Ruyland family. She controls the mill town of Habersham and all the Ruylands' interests there. She is a benevolent despot who gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having her own way. The new woman is Fredericka Gage, who marries Kennion Ruyland, Augusta's grandnephew...
...known as "King Tobias." He has been to Mexico, and has made money. But now he wishes to live in the Nordland where he was born. All that he asks of the Lieutenant is some land for a cottage, and half the river, so that he can run a mill. But Holmengraa has not been "King Tobias" for nothing. Enterprise flourishes where he establishes himself. Presently he has acquired the whole river and a mortgage on the whole estate. Like Buddenbrooks (see the adjacent column), it is a study of the decay of the old order. Its style is more...
...cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger son of a wealthy family (Richard Dix) when the fortunes of both are ebbing away in their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with...