Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change to production of peacetime articles made necessary new machinery, not only in considerable amounts, but of many different kinds. Bethlehem's war output was highly standardized, and consisted of machine shells, etc., all exactly alike. Now these shell plants are provided with machinery to produce milling cutters, punches, jigs, rivet sets, gauges and a high grade of other finished machine shop products...
...play proves, as has been so often proved before, that no stenographer should marry her employer saving she is industrious, intelligent and plain. Miss Hay pulls her hair flat and conceals herself behind shell spectacles to fulfill the last consideration. Proving her industry and intelligence is easy. She is therefore married for herself alone...
...vaudeville interests have preserved the name and the shell of the Hippodrome. As a wholesale house for heavy spectacle it is no more...
...Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole white contingent. Nine or ten thousand natives are acting on his advice when an American gunboat hears the rumpus, drops a shell in the courtyard of the besieged chateau, details a platoon of marines. The masses of natives melt. The chateau, the mines, the people are saved. To make it completely safe for 100% Americanism, the Princess, foregoing her regal alliances, decides that plain Mrs. Hollingsworth Chase is good enough...
Whether due to the ineptitude of the Wilson administration or to the reactionary conservatism of part of the opposition. America soon after the war crawled into her shell, drew in her horns after her, and has remained there ever since. All talk of the war has been thrust resolutely out of the window, and the door shut and battened against Europe by the adroit use of the Monroe Doctrine. Although this document was first promulgated only with reference to South America, it has stood the present government authorities in good stead on many occasions during the past...