Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humored, fast film vaudeville, with nice tunes and without a story. There are some new tricks in it. When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a chorus of giant Grenadiers, later grows up to normal size. During one of the color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer and John Gilbert put on the balcony scene from...
...Normal Man. Different are the types of various races. The U. S. Normal Man stands with his feet fairly well apart, his weight forward, more aggressive than philosophical. His hands are well controlled, his arms relaxed, his head straight, his chin...
...harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...
...Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were, as students of government weather reports know,* light snows last winter, early thaws last spring, winds carrying water vapor away from the coasts instead of inland...
With the seventh month of 1929 ending, U. S. corporation reports for the first six months last week came flocking in. The normal report showed an increase over the first six months of 1928. Steel was the banner industry, with almost every company reporting a peacetime record. Strong also were the utilities. Coal, leather, shoes, machinery and various other of the unspectacular necessities of life were weak. Among many corporations reporting their earnings, the following were of particular interest or importance...