Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vice versa would quickly be accumulated. It seems likely that Mr. de Rham's scheme will be approved by the International Rotary Convention this June. The purpose which has actuated the Jersey City Club is not by any means new but it is not and can never be shop worn. Mr. de Rham says, "it is hoped by means of this movement to strengthen the bond between nations through the universal fellowship of study...
...were on hand, and legislators aplenty. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis of professional baseball, President E. H. H. Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, General Pershing and notable sundries provided the lay relief which is necessary to save a Gridiron dinner from becoming mere facetious shop talk among mutually bored familiars...
...Thomas Franklin Millard, long resident in China as the meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times cabled a moving story: "A Chinese widow whose livelihood depends on a small flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
...size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers who, leaving their father's blacksmith shop in Norwalk, Ohio, to build motor car (Fisher) bodies, have won high positions in the General Motors organization.* General Motors officials pondered long over a name for this new model. They knew the price-$2,495 to $2,685. In fact, corporation engineers had built this new car to meet...
That Thoreau was once offered a job in a machine shop by a gentleman who had observed the naturalist's skill in grappling with a railroad car window, is an interesting sidelight that Professor Murdock will probably not disclose when he lecturees at 10 o'clock this morning on the famous recluse...