Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves...
Three years ago, Edgar Kaufmann, on culture bent, decided to remodel his store. He scoured the U. S. for a good draughtsman, found Boardman Robinson, painter-cartoonist, asked him for a set of murals expressing the history of commerce. Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse...
Whenever a huddle of Gophers held out their arms to catch a pass, a Michigan man popped up and intercepted it. Pharmer did some good passing and kicking for his own side. Michigan 7, Minnesota 6.
In Chicago, Gilva McClathie's wife haled him to court, sued for divorce. She said her husband sent her to the kitchen every morning, then, with admonitions of "Don't peek," hid her daily 75? allowance somewhere in another room. Mrs. McClathie's complaint was that some...
Only three years ago, U. S. tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women...