Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nizam of Hyderabad is supposed to have once refused to pay 6? for a dab of ice cream, rebuking the vendor for asking this "high price." In Sunday supplements he is said to have his worn clothing cut down to fit the next smaller member of the Royal Family, and so on. In fact the World's Richest Man is just about as tight & loose with his money as the poorer John D. Rockefellers. One of his old Hyderabad customs is never to receive one of his subjects, no matter how poor, unless the subject brings a cash present...
...black granite, 25 ft. high, 10 ft. thick at the base. When San Franciscans failed to produce enough money to move it sight unseen to California, he abandoned it in a French barn (where it is still held for unpaid storage) and returned to California with two smaller statues salvaged from stone chopped out from under the saint's arms...
...President enjoyed his state reception for Congress because it was smaller than usual. Reasons: influenza and flood...
Bundled in sheepskins, mackinaws and fur-lined boots, owners and skippers assembled there last week with 40 racing boats. The ice was bumpy, the winds weak, but they cut their five-day program to two days and made the best of it. Boats are classified by sail areas. Smaller boats may race in classes for larger boats. Winner in Class A (350 sq. ft. of sail) was The Fritz, a $2,000 craft, holder of the trophy donated by William Randolph Hearst in 1904, owned by Fred Jungbluth of Madison, Wis., piloted by Carl Bernard. Its best speed over...
...Alumni Bulletin's latest number carries an article entitled "Shrimps and the Harvard Tercentenary" written by Lionel A. Walford, '31 of the Bureau of Fisheries. Part of it is reprinted below. In the introduction to the excerpt quoted, Mr. Walford points out that the trade of the smaller independent fishermen, the Boston trawlers and the Maine lobstermen suffers a let-down in winter...