Word: plate-glass
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...away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because "I didn't know how hard you had to heave to really break the glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes. She kept count of the number...
...must to all men, Death came at Sewickley, Pa., last week, to a 69-year-old millionaire who had risen from a small stained glass maker to be the largest plate-glass manufacturer in the world. He was on boards of great banks, Mellon National, Federal Reserve, was director of a Bell Telephone Co., trustee for Pittsburgh's Associated Charities, president of national trade associations. Yet all his life he was a sailor-man at heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport...
...formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar's position in U. S. industry...
...little regret to their Freshman victims. As the picture has been announced for over a week, the intervention of authority at the last minute was unexpected, to say the least. Apprehension lest the Freshmen scuff holes in the granite steps or in their excitement sling their pennies through the plate-glass doors, may have been the difficulty. It was also feared that the strong men of 1921 might try coercive methods in persuading the tight-fisted yearlings to "come across...
...lettered with the name of the defeated club, score and date. The balls will cost $25, the painting, etc, of the balls now on hand and the number above mentioned, one hundred and thirty-three all together, will cost $20. These amounts and the cost of the case with plate-glass doors is $220; with common glass in the doors, $35 less...