Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduction. Government spending increased $150,000,000 in 1928. This was $27,000,000 less than had been planned. Collections dropped $51,000,000. Customs receipts dropped $36,000,000. Internal revenues dropped $24,000,000. Secretary Mellon explained that the falling off in revenues was due to "a sharp diminution" in receipts from the Federal estate (inheritance) tax and to the tax-cutting Revenue Act of 1928. He also said: "In view of the amount of discussion that has taken place as to the accuracy of the Treasury's estimate of income taxes, is is worthy of note...
From Philadelphia came the broadside of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher of the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Satevepost. Publisher Curtis who last week observed his 78th birthday, his 53rd year as a publisher, could not content himself with sharp, angry answer. He fought back. What about this man Siegfried, anyway? "He is said to be a professor. The title is very likely a misnomer." He groped for epithets. "Absurd," he cried . . . "Ridiculous . . . Ignorant...
...bits from the mouths of old men he has woven a maundering tale of his Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp exchange of their arrows for rocks catapulted from the majestic ship of none other than "Julius Seaser...
...prehistoric brain surgery Anatomist Kappers reminisced, "It is even probable that the trephine holes found in prehistoric skulls 50,000 years old were made for curative purposes. A short time ago the aborigines of some Pacific islands still exercised a similar practice, making holes in their skulls with sharp shells to cure chronic headaches." He mentioned briefly his own theory of neurobiotaxis which considers the brain as a functioning organ and attempts to explain its complexities in terms of work. This done, Anatomist Kappers eulogized U. S. neurologists and neurosurgeons for their advance in the treatment of tumours and abscesses...
...everyone knows, the beauty of the Langhorne sisters long was the pride of Virginia, the joy of the nation's portrait painters. Their fame spread far and wide, to England where Nancy Langhorne, as Viscountess Astor, brought beauty and sharp wits to Parliament; to Manhattan, where Irene Langhorne became the wife of Charles Dana Gibson, noted artist in pen and ink, who hung her picture from a myriad mouldings, the original "Gibson girl...