Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health suppressed the Municipal Guardians of West Ham, famed constituency of John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite M. P., raucous boor. The Guardians of West Ham, ardent Laborites, had been paying "unemployment doles" to able-bodied men on a scale higher than their wages when employed. As a result the community is reported in debt...
...behalf. Ergo these sums cancel out of any discussion of the Anglo-U. S. debt. . .etc. . . . etc.. . . etc. . . . At this point the debate, though showing every sign of being continued ad infinitum, passed into the limbo where hairs are split-often by honest, well-intentioned men. The total result of last week's academic tilt was to rouse a majority of British editors to frenzied indignation at the U. S. Cartoons labeled "USury" were frequent in which " Uncle Sam" became "Uncte Shylock," and was adorned with unmistakably Semitic features. Late despatches reported that this orgy of futility seemed...
Young Publisher Vanderbilt soon set his visitors right. He had been to Europe primarily to ask plastic surgeons to cure his jaw of a war-gas infection-which they had failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt...
...RESULT of the Life Extension Institute's recent examination of nearly 17,000 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's policy holders seems to indicate that a great" many people are needlessly alarmed about the fate of their teeth. Only 1 in every 20 had pyorrhea-only 5.7% between the ages of 35 and 44; only 7.1% between 45 and 54; only 7.4% past 54. Such statistics are all against pyorrheapanic. . . . For SIXTY YEARS the makers of Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder have believed that the purpose of a dentifrice is to encourage the regular daily brushing...
...charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post. After a certain number of months, of course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern advertising is rounded off by an amazing rise in the male birth rate and universal posthumous acclaim for Marcus Faithful, whose only private explanation is: "It must have been faith...