Word: shrunk
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...least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went up. Relief rolls had shrunk so low it was hard to find labor enough to finish public projects already started...
...always blonde" and "New York wives shrink from the hoary tale." I am a practicing attorney in the city of New York and my experience includes several divorces, but never has Madam X of the story been a blonde, never has she worn pajamas, never has a wife shrunk from the hoary tale...
...been "brown-haired," "red-haired," "light-haired," "dark." She has worn a "blanket," "black lace step-ins," "dancing tights," "panties," "white nightgown" or "nothing." New York wives have not shrunk-most of them have laughed out loud...
Such tactics sent a thrill of fear through conservative Californians. Since the August primaries, reported San Francisco financial houses fortnight ago, State, county, district and city bonds have shrunk $50,000,000 in value, with State bonds showing a 6% decline, while bonds of Missouri dropped 1½%, bonds of Illinois less than 1% in the same period...
...just before the case came to trial, Schoor decided to pay a $12.50 fine. Having summoned the jury, however, the presiding justice of the peace let the prosecution call its witnesses. From the New York Aquarium came an ichthyologist to testify that no pickerel in his experience had ever shrunk more than a quarter of an inch. Indignantly Emil Schoor changed his mind about dropping the case, asked for a change of venue. The court refused the petition, clapped the defendant in jail. Released on bail, Schoor went to the State Supreme Court, got his change of venue. The pickerel...