Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the last two years installment buying in Great Britain has grown to large proportions and at present companies are being organized to finance it. Radios and furniture are the principle articles so sold, but at the largest automobile show ever held in London (at the Olympia) "motor cars" were largely sold on the installment plan...
BURLESQUE-A drunkard's love story while the burlesque show goes...
Playing among themselves Western youths shoved, dodged, went proudly home to show black and blue spots to Alma Mater. Michigan dedicated a brand new back yard that cost $2,000,000, asking Ohio State over to play in it. Ohio State went home, morose because Michigan, boisterous host, won 21-0. Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0. Notre Dame, wild Irish children, rubbed Indiana...
Businessmen who knew that a letter does cost 14.972 cents were the most insistent that their executives and office help attend the 24th yearly National Business Show, which began last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The place was crowded with men and women studying devices that could save them labor, seconds and mills...
...Back in the boll-weevil belt, there are, of course, married men who sleep with the family Bible in their undershirts"), "The American Emotion," ("The observer of the emotional reactions of the American people is brought to the lamentable conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats or bares his teeth; he dances, like a graceful, surly, clever clown through a loud Mardi Gras of vulgarity...