Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Keeley Institute advertisement: "Hundreds of ladies have taken the Keeley Treatment for Liquor. They have complete privacy ... the exact degree of privacy which they desire. All lady patients are treated in their own rooms, a physician and nurse visiting them for that purpose. Every courtesy and aid is extended to...
A. E. Lefcourt, in some quarters considered Most Potent Realtor, came from Russia. His first U. S. job was blacking boots. His most recent achievement was the opening of his own bank, the Lefcourt Normandie National Bank. He has specialized in building industrial centres.
The Single Standard (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo usually manages to make her roles real no matter how badly written they are. This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which...
"Jason had been a long baby, and had grown to six feet before he was eighteen. He was beyond that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such...
The publisher's agent of the future threatens, or promises, to be not so much the retail bookseller any more, as the literary club with its thousands of book-a-month readers who are generally subscribers-by-the-year. Book-of-the-Month Club, which merely selects and sends...