Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your writeup on the American Dental Association was a good one. For if you can go to a convention and see a more high-hatted bunch, their nose in the air, half-educated demagogs, than these self-styled dental fraternity men, you will have to name it. Their conventions are so exclusive you are confronted with a sign, "For Psy Si Members Only." Dr. So-and-So will lecture on this and that, and further along for members of the Si Psy or whatever society that you come to. Get your ticket for members only...
Pinoleum Million. So long ago that the trade name has become a common proprietary, a Dr. Bryan D. Sheedy, nose & throat man, mixed menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, oil of Ceylon cinnamon and pine-needle oil in liquid petroleum and called his preparation pinoleum. He formed a corporation, the Pinoleum Co., which in recent years despite sharp competition by Standard Oil and others, has averaged $60,902 annual profits. Dr. Sheedy died three years ago. Last week his estate appraised...
...from the right. The numerically stronger but disorganized left had twice failed. It was time to summon the man whom former Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré? greatest statesman of the right?has been grooming as his successor for two years past at least. All France knows the long, rumbling name; André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu. He has two nicknames, first Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), second L'Americain?for snappy, humorless, combative André Tardieu is supposed to be "the most American of Frenchmen...
...organizing a religious society called The Union of Those Who Praise His Name, which was in fact a counter-revolutionary association of priests and land-owners," 15 persons, including two one-time Tsarist army officers, were shot at Rostov in the Northern Caucasus...
Keith's--"Rio Rita", all-talking, singing, dancing movie of Ziegfeld's operetta of the same name, with Bebe Daniels and John Boles...