Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Milly Burden became pregnant in a small Virginia town. Her lover, Martin Welding, a nervewracked U. S. soldier, had returned to France after the War. Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others. Furthermore Milly reminded Lawyer Littlepage of his daughter, Mary Victoria. Encouraged by softness, Milly confided her worry over Welding's nerves. In return, Lawyer Littlepage had Mary Victoria, who was in Europe, look Welding...
Perhaps the best indication of the change can be seen in the shift of the spotlight from pitchers to batters. Once upon a time small boys wanted to grow up and be like Pitchers Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. Now they want to grow up and be like Hitters George Herman ("Babe") Ruth or Rogers Hornsby...
Player Foxx, a 180-pounder just under six feet, has a chest expansion of 6½ inches. Like a majority of the Big League players, he is a small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half...
...have been 50 bank mergers in New York. In 33 of these mergers the smaller bank has completely lost its identity. Furthermore, new mergers are constantly expected, with the banking trend unquestionably toward the formation of fewer and bigger banks. Founding of Commercial National as an independent and comparatively small bank was a marked exception to the prevailing tendency...
Montgomery Ward & Co. is also considering marketing an automobile. Automotive bystanders, hearing that General Motors was experimenting with a small, airplane-motored automobile priced around $250, to be shipped in a box which would serve also as its garage, linked this rumored "aero-car" with the Montgomery Ward story. General Motors offices belittled the story, said that with 30,000 G. M. dealers there was no need for mailorder distribution of General Motors products. Asked whether General Motors was planning a car of the type described, the reply was that General Motors had so many experimental projects, each productive...