Word: script
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weapon supposed to be reserved for interloping foreigners. The crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000,000 loss. Members of the Committee were said to have discovered that Hatry had obtained a loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which the Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic...
Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy last week chewed on a bitter-sweet contract and said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
Meanwhile an airplane zoomed away from Manhattan bearing the Show Girl script for Miss Stone to learn while crossing the country. It arrived in Los Angeles just three hours after her train had departed eastward. There upon Will Rogers took to an airplane, pursued the train to an outlying station, dropped the script to Miss Stone who caught it on the fly. In her drawing room, as the train moved on, she began memorizing lines, practicing tap steps, after eating cautiously, with an eye to health...
Eventually it was in the maize field that peasant searchers found Baroness Irma Molnar, strangled by a heavy silken cord. Tied to one of the tassels was a crisp card, on which was written in what some thought feminine script...
...their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes set a high standard of vocal expression in reading the lines. Mary Pickford has not performed vocally, for many a year. Her script was hurt when its sex morality was .cut over for film use and a windy, incredible courtroom scene introduced'. Her cast is bad and her director no genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does...