Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, appreciate the self-sacrifice that prompts Lady Rhondda and her American "consoeurs" in their willingness to share the burdens of national life, but one may also feel that the benighted male is able to get into enough trouble without help. There are those who think that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists...
...been like boys, armed with straws, sucking lemonade up from great bowls. The harder a boy can suck and the more straws he can maneuver, the more lemonade he gets. If he stops to catch his breath or to wipe his nose, the other boys will suck up some share of his drink. Oil operators are such suckers, all ceaselessly aspirating oil from common, underground pools. Oil men are inclined not to trust one another...
...famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that far off day when the North was shocked with a concrete illustration of how the institution of slavery functioned. As he talked, the woman who stood beside him saw, perhaps, not men and women of 1927 but men and women...
Under the management committee Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. soon began to make profits. It is the largest company in the industry. But ordinary Goodyear stockholders received no share of the profits. The money went to pay interest on bonds and other new indebtedness incurred by the Dillon, Read refinancing. The management committee, particularly Mr. Dillon and Mr. Sherwin, were mismanaging, cried stockholders...
...themselves and contemporary, civilization in general recently. Startling disclosures were revealed in the seniors' voting statistics announced at the banquet. Having voted girls as their favorite study, the 1927 Princetonians selected Harvard after Smith and Vassar as the most popular women's college. Harvard again came in for its share of good natured sarcasm when many seniors answered the question: "What has 1927 done for Princeton?" by saying, "dropped Harvard...