Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Prime Minister MacDonald, whose first London job, at 19, earned him $2.40 a week for addressing envelopes for a bicycle touring club, announced in the Commons, in his capacity as First Lord of the Treasury, that he had increased the salary of Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, sharp-tongued onetime engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses of their official...
When he sees Louis and Teena approach, Jencic hides in a dark doorway. Sharp-eyed Louie yanks him out by the collar. At last Jencic awakes. He grabs Louie by the throat, smashes his face. Down goes Louie, then up with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade...
...Pathfinder, their third start in six weeks. Heavily loaded (450 gal. of fuel), the plane barely missed an amusement pier, reached an altitude of 500 feet, soon disappeared. Townsfolk, watching the takeoff, noticed strange bell-shaped "trousers" over the Pathfinder's wheels. A mechanic explained: streamline aluminum cowling, sharp at the front, breaks the wind...
Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...
...companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...