Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bucher, of the Bureau of Commercial Economics, an international organization for the promotion of mutual understanding between nations, will give a lecture illustrated by motion pictures on "Germany Since the War" at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Living Room of the Union. He saw service overseas during the World War, and after the Armistice spent much time in Central Europe doing relief work. He is also a newspaper correspondent...
...told you so," or some more elegant paraphrase thereof, is what many a U. S. newsreader said last week when he saw the earnings report of the company whose stock fluctuations he had watched during...
...Lake Undega in New York State is Berkenmeer. Its Main Street has a gaudy haberdashery shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air of detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such heresy was momentarily dispelled after...
Tony also encountered talent of another type-Natalie, the wife of Arthur Gortion. She was a Russian noblewoman of dark, warm beauty. Gortion had begun to look on her as an indiscretion of his youth; she locked her door at night and saw little of him or of the townsfolk. So it was natural that Natalie and Tony, both out of place in Berkenmeer society, should become illicit lovers. One day, Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches...
...GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON -Charles Merz - John Day ($3). Everybody come quick, jump aboard, see a lotta things you never saw before, forget you're a shoe clerk, play cowboy an' injun, make yourself a hero, have secret power -everybody's doing it, follow the crowd, you can't go wrong...