Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's stage stuff in so far as the union officials are concerned. . . . These folks you saw were dubs. ... I mean by that that they enjoy misery?or what would be misery to you or me, but to them is just normal existence. Why, some of them have been living like that around here for three years, and they'll continue to do it as long as the public helps them and the union exploits them...
...distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted the British security holders from Commonwealth levies. Although 1926 saw this dispute ironed out to London's satisfaction, the successful Queensland issue of 1922 at New York established a precedent. Now there are on the New York trading list two Commonwealth of Australia bonds, two Queensland issues, three City of Brisbane? obligations, two New South Wales securities and one public utility...
...must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby's invitation to Senator Borah to visit Europe Mr. MacDonald understands that some Americans saw in the invitation the working of the "old evil willness of Europe," and feels that "the less the Lord Derbys try to influence America the better...
...Holland went to Dr. Schireson for removal of her shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added: "W'hen the patient left the operating table...
Last week Mother Burnham awoke one morning horrified. Plastered hugely across the first page of the Daily Mirror, Hearst tabloid, was Vera's picture, heavily headlined, triumphantly copyrighted. Mother Burnham eyed it narrowly; saw it was no fake...