Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...
...Scranton of Pennsylvania as her successor as No. 2 driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
...Reason: the British mills have reserve stocks of the type of high class cotton cloth competitively manufactured in the U. S. and can maintain their position in this class of goods for some weeks or months. 3) Germany and Japan, producers of cheapest cotton cloth, will be in a much stronger position to grab what Lancashire loses of this business?and the bulk of Lancashire cloth has long been of the cheaper grades...
...once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol?presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed Prince Hsien Kai or anyone else in the garden. Somehow or other, while he "handled" the pistol, it had gone...