Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Embassy some 30 minutes later, the Prime Minister received about 200 newsgatherers. "All that I put in a plea for is that disagreement never be aggravated by misunderstanding," he said. "Neither your President, I believe, nor myself-I can certainly talk for myself- have any idea of spending much time in discussing details. We should like to survey together the large and wide, the high and deep problems of international peace." The Conversations. Into the Blue Ridge Mountains next day to do that surveying repaired President and Prime Minister. The world press waited. Not only had it no "details...
...slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President Hoover in private, the Maharajah of Kapurthala was not pre pared...
Although the Navy ran four yards every time William and Mary ran one, their 15 to 0 didn't look much for a team only seven days from Notre Dame...
...Athletics, representing the American League. The other was the Chicago Cubs, representing the National League. As everyone knows, Mr. Wrigley is Cub owner. The millions of U. S. citizens who, through radio and newspaper, hung upon the flash of every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them. Nor, in justice to Mr. Wrigley, could it be said that his connection with baseball was sordidly commercial. The Chicago baseball franchise was no pearl of great price when Mr. Wrigley purchased it, and as recently...
...cook book or a box of chewing gum with every can. Finding that the gum went better than the baking powder he concentrated on that and gave away with it cash-registers, cheese-cutters, scales and desks. Often his premiums wiped out his profits and he never made much money until he started to advertise, first in small town papers and store windows, then on billboards and in city papers. When he had $100,000 he spent it all on an advertising campaign in Manhattan, got no returns. He saved up $100,000 more, spent that the same way, then...