Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Cinema column you print, "Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house. . . ." If facts are of any interest to your valuable publication I shall be very happy to furnish a complete history of my life. Although I have followed a number of professions, I have up to the present never been a waiter in real life...
Utter Caddishness Sirs: I read with surprise in your current number, which lies before me, in a footnote on page 18, a most uncalled for and venomous attack on the members of various London clubs which I note are carefully not mentioned by name. That the editor of a paper to which I have for some time subscribed should lower his magazine by allowing some member of his staff to vent his jealousy and malice on men, who, being unnamed, cannot defend themselves ... is inconceivable. If the writer of this paragraph is not a hypocrite, who is? Such sickening cant...
Sales. According to Cram's Automotive Reports, Inc., the standing of the manufacturers in number of retail sales for the first quarter of 1928, as compared with the first quarter...
...checks (forged, bogus, worthless, raised, altered) are on the increase, both as to number and amounts involved...
...poultrymen failed to convene. If they had met, they would have discussed the statistics compiled by D. H. Otis, director of the agricultural commission of the American Bankers' Association: An increase in the average number of eggs laid by each chicken in one year from 56 to 135-a proven possibility-would nearly cut in half the 409,290,849 chickens now required in the U. S. It would result in a capital saving amounting...