Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manchester, England, one "Smottox" Kerrigan, chauffeur, stood in the back yard of his boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...
...brought torture for the hearing. One turns to the pages of history, to the writings of quiet men in quiet times and rests for a moment but only a moment. A typewriter sounds in the next room, a barrel organ in the street, and the book is slammed shut with a bang which last bang proves, after all, noise is victor. Indeed, this age has long ceased to be one of iron it is one of noise. And until there comes some quiet, until there arrives the majestic calm of a calmer century, there can be no deep philosophy...
...competition sprang into existence again and began to undersell the U. S. commodity. In 1922 in the Fordney-McCumber Act, the duty on these gloves was raised so that it ranges from 63% to 75%, at which it remains. None the less, U. S. factories have been compelled to shut down by German competition...
...much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than the shot that began the battle of Lexington-Mathewson created a legend. He pitched three shut-out games...
...Griffin for the visitors scored the two tallies which shut out Coach Pattison's yearlings, and at no time were the Freshmen able to stage a rally...