Word: one
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing looks worse than a big flask on one side and a sandwich box on the other. Carry one or the other, but not both. . . . Do not strew the paper from your sandwich box all about the countryside...
...feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
Censorship need not be official to be effective. One Manhattan publishing house has lately learned this truth. The publishers are Charles Scribner's Sons. The unofficially censored book is Edwin Franden Dakin's Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind, published by Scribner's last August, now unobtainable at many a bookstore. The unofficial censors are Christian Scientists...
...less distance to go. ¶If you override the hounds, do not tell the Master you could not hold your horse. "Simply say, 'Sorry.' . . . Remember for the rest of your hunting life that a horse you cannot hold is the poorest of excuses for overriding hounds. If one cannot control one's horse, the hunting field is no place for one...
...absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner, Texas oil & cattleman, for Reigh Count, derby winner (1928). He had turned down the offer. Reigh Count is now ready for stud although he may be raced one more season...