Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malcolm MacDonald, second son, sailed from Vancouver to attend the Institute of Pacific Relations in Kyoto. He received radio bulletins about his triumphal father...
Reginald Owen makes an ingratiating Prince, and Betty Schuster's Baroness is among Broadway's handsomer sights. One would like to know whether Author Geyer or Translator Wodehouse is responsible for Mr. Howard's mot in the second act. When the Prince inquires what sort of women are customarily available to valets. he replies: "A cook, a lady's maid, and possibly a governess-at Christmas...
...keeps ringing him on the telephone. Otherwise you might be doubtful, for he spends his mornings fighting hangovers with antidotes of tomato juice, and his evenings trying to clear his chambers of pesky women. One of these vampires marries him while they are both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie Baldwin, this pastiche of variety show emotions and humors succeeds in being very...
...Morrows are not identified with the large manufacturers, their position in the distributing end could make their influence mighty. If the raise in the wholesale price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price (now two for 25? in most places, 23? in large chain systems), the second menace to the tobacco industry will have been removed. Although chain stores can afford to sell cigarets at no profit, or even a loss, the war has been expensive to smaller merchants. With cigarets costing them $6 per 1,000 the package price has been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling...
Perhaps Mr. Babson was only fractionally vindicated. For though stocks went down last week more than in any other week for a year, October's second week opened with a comeback. Incidents...