Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peddling ice, ice cream, water and cold-storage space in southern California, sells gas and electricity to a large population just south of San Francisco Bay. Because by such means they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus of howling protest. They could not afford to build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe-lines and could not, therefore, be sold; the big operators would profit at their...
...first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years...
Dimly Miss Oelrichs remembers the house at Newport where she spent her childhood, petticoated among socialites who were her family's friends. But while Miss Oelrichs was still young her mother divorced Mr. Oelrichs on grounds of cruelty. With alimony small, with income from other sources slight, young "Bubbles" Oelrichs found herself growing up to the problem of maintaining a position with little money...
...labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...
With one hundred men detailed to look after the visitors, there should be no need or excuse for the usual information bureau type of hospitality. Each man need be responsible for but a small group of West Pointers and so feel free to enter into an easier intimacy with his guests than has been possible heretofore...