Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good Fruit Trees. ..." Printer William Rind, a later owner, fared better. Sometimes he was able to insert as many as two pages of advertising, dealing with "Run Way Slaves," slaves to be sold, slaves arrested and refusing to give names of masters, doctors who were about to open a season of vaccination, lottery winners, sailings of ships. Advertising costs were indefinite: "3 shillings the first week, and 2 shillings each time after. And long ones in proportion...
Prosperous, popular investments are the larger Norwegian whaling companies. Last season three of the big ones reported combined profits of over $2,000,000, declared average dividends of 30%. Typical of the industry is the C. A. Larsen, biggest whaling boat (9,431 tons). Last year the C. A. Larsen, her hold filled with whale oil, tossed 500 tons of coal into the sea to make room for more oil, returned with a $1.000,000 cargo. Such trips paid off her construction cost in two years...
Sent Home. Grover Cleveland (''Old Pete") Alexander, 42, 18 years a National League baseball pitcher, holder of the all-time league record for game-winning (373)i member of the St. Louis Cardinals; to Nebraska on full pay for the balance of the season; by Club Owner Samuel Breadon; for breaking training after he lost a game to the New York Giants. He had an edge on every other team in the league. His career's score with the Giants finally stood: Alexander 39, Giants...
Sousa's March. Lieut.-Commander John Philip Sousa & Band opened their 37th season with a concert on Atlantic City's steel pier. For ten weeks they will tour the country, beginning at the dedication of Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Bandmaster Sousa, 74, has swung his baton a half-century. Today he is keen-eyed, grey-haired, martial. Gone is the pointed black beard which used to punctuate his face on billboards. Before a concert he pulls on a new pair of white kid gloves, afterwards peels them off, autographs them for lady admirers. To aspiring young bandmasters...
...bibulous and Prohibited. U. S. "boobisms," name-changing, sentimentality Bernard Shaw's chief charm, U. S. lack of romantic or musical appreciation, social rise of the Southern Negro, exercise unnecessary, emasculation of U. S. actors by Anglicizing, a six-page list of the sex-business in one season's plays, the U. S. "itch for bogus purple," the old U. S. saloons not clubs, an assault on publishers including A. A. Knopf, dancing not art but exhibitionism. A typical Nathanity: "And if too many people familiarly call Jimmy Walker by his first name, too many, it seems...