Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge viewed with alarm the Budget Bureau's report that the U. S. has a paper deficit of some 94 millions for the fiscal year ending next June 30. He said he would call together the bureau heads, preach Economy, see what can be done...
...Established 1844, makes tags, labels, crepe paper, paper napkins, paper boxes, jewelers' cases, sealing wax, glue, mucilage, ideas for festival gimcracks...
...Board of Education of New York City last week published two books, one bound in gray paper, the other in maroon boards. On their pages were hundreds of columns of numbers, long and neat. The maroon book was lightened at the end by a few pictures, but here also were numbers...
...does wear a Van Dyke beard. Also he confesses in the September American Magazine: "I am 39 years old-oh. well, call it 40, since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose...
...Manhattan again, he started out to write for the Clipper, famed, defunct, theatrical paper. When he left, he said, "Now I'll be a producer," a remark which was supposed to annoy the editor but instead only made him laugh. Jake Horowitz became a producer of publicity for the Shuberts, Mark Klaw and Richard Herndon. At this racket, he was good enough to make $3,000 which he speedily sank in his first production, The Romantic Age by A. A. Milne, a flop. He heard someone comment on the name above "Presents" on the program, and changed...