Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning-Feb. 13-I got my first number of your TIME. For the first time in my life I saw the pictured face of Eugene O'Neill: on my writing table was a . . . portrait of Andreyev. I placed my hand over the lower part of O'Neill's face, and our Leonid's eyes confronted me, his fine brow and wave of dark hair (tidier, though). As to my hopeful expectation regarding TIME it is more than satisfied...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
Judgment. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s charge that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced" was not unnatural. Between the senators' attitudes toward miners and operators, there was a marked difference betraying sympathy for the underdogs, suspicion for the upperdogs, and shock at the general horridness of what they saw in the coal fields. Inevitably mixed with these emotions was senatorial self-importance and a consciousness that politically the investigation was a cynosure. Senator Gooding, who, as junior senator from Idaho, is thoroughly eclipsed most of the time by his ursine colleague, Senator Borah, was moved to speak forth like...
...typical case reported by Divorce was that of Mrs. Celia Firestone who saw her husband enter the apartment of another woman in the Bronx. Such items, so common in divorce cases, are dull reading. But Divorce also told how a husband complained in court that his wife had not taken a bath in two years; how a wife complained that her husband had made her sleep in the chicken-coop and sell the hens' eggs to provide herself with necessities; how a husband complained that his wife had been attending strip poker parties when he was away at work...
Vincent Vigoroux, 15, youngest editor and publisher in the U. S., whose paper is The Little Acorn of New Rochelle, N. Y., and 1,150 editors of high school papers throughout the land, attended the annual convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in Manhattan last week, saw how linotype machines were made, visited plants of New York City newspapers, heard President Karl August Bickel of the United Press say: "The day of the hardboiled, cynical reporter with a bottle of whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition...