Word: salting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Married. Philip Fox La Follette, 25, youngest son of U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, to Miss Isabel Bacon of Salt Lake City...
...Legislative Assembly by 58 votes to 47 rejected a proposal to double the salt duty, after the budget was returned from the Council of State...
...American women writers, she has pleased the critics as well as the public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth, and she is aunt to the children of William Rose Benet, the poet. Her life has been a varied one, and it shows in her keen understanding of women's hearts and minds, and in her unfailing observation of detail. About...
...offers himself "modestly and gratefully as a Living Example" of his wife's art. Her style, lacking the richer beauties of his, has a toothsome directness. The following excerpt is characteristic: "The best plan is to soak the head in a bowl of cold water and a little salt all night, previously removing the brains." The quotation is from a fanciful essay entitled "Calf's Head...
...industrial alcohol could successfully compete as automotive fuel. Hard on the heels of this exchange, Chairman Bedford, of the same company, issued an even more thought provoking and pessimistic statement concerning oil production in Mexico. Thus do the many and much criticized Wall Street rumors of last year concerning "salt water" finally find official confirmation...