Word: neuters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty is that if one glove is lost, a neuter single can be bought for mating because any glove can be worn on either hand. Die cut, it requires less labor to manufacture than an ordinary glove, but uses up 100% more goods. Priced cheaply, it might find a market with thrifty souls who lose an estimated million single gloves a year. Mark Cross priced it at $1.50 to $3.25 per glove (sold singly...
...commission's belief thaft price control is the chief handmaiden of monopoly. And Princeton Professor Frank A. Fetter explained monopoly: "It is derivative of two Greek roots, 'monos,' alone, and 'polei, to sell, and it occurs in the Greek in two forms, feminine and neuter, 'monopolia and 'monopolion...
...bride.a Miss Grace Louise Himebaugh. Whether Hoyt subsequently changed his mind, sex or both was but darkly indicated by the fact that the marriage license was never filed, the wedding therefore probably never performed. Last week, as Bostonians wondered whether the late Hoyt was masculine, feminine or neuter, a hearing was set for late summer in Middlesex Probate Court, Middlesex County, Mass...
Frank King last week left Walt & Phyllis debating whether or not to "take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...
...this peculiar scarlet emphasis by Der Reichsführer upon his refusal of mercy to two women? In an effort to explain, an excited editor of the New York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland...