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...best suggestion received by March 1, 1924, for a subject on which we can relieve ourselves of the telling phrases that we have been saving up for the last few years. At the option of the winner the prize will consist of a solid gold ivory mounted betel nut outfit or of a quart bottle of Haig and Haig (risk of entry to be borne by the winner...
...Washington, though, is the tough nut to crack. After I had wandered around there without any success for more than two hours, I was about to decide that the capital was as dry as a bone. Then I went into a barber shop for a shave. The barber asked me if I wanted bay rum. I told him I preferred real rum. He put me in touch with a $12 bottle...
...Chaplin took every bet that was, offered. The race was run in a snow-storm and Hermit won, netting his master upwards of $500,000. Hastings lost supposedly $350,000, was ruined and committed suicide. When Chaplin was made Viscount in 1916, his arms consisted partly of a "chest-nut-colored race horse in a white headstall...
...like all other men, find joy in some forms of work, in creative work, in work that is the free expression of one's self. But labor union men, like all other men can never find joy in the dreadful monotony and machine-character of industry, in being "Nut 39" or "Nut 15" (expressive names attached to hundreds of laborers in Ford's factories in Detroit...
Little by little the dispute over the meaning of this entry will grow until it includes in one vast growl of argument all the people from the hereditary janitors down to the sovereigns of the wrench and the nut. When it reaches the last named arbiters of human progress, the machinery, being neglected, will jam, whereupon the lights will go out. The growl of argument will then change to one great roar of anger...