Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please leave out a picture on the front cover of TIME soon and substitute therefor an APOLOGY to your readers for having disgraced that space in the issue of April 9 with a reproduction of a likeness of SINCLAIR-corruptionist De Luxe...
Manager Van Namee soon assembled a squad of polite gentlemen and young ladies to write letters, answer telephones, receive callers. Soon monster posters of the Candidate, which made him look more like an advertisement for cold cream and collars than like a Presidential aspirant, were hung upon the walls. Typical of the conversation which buzzed in the Van Namee offices was a spirited debate over when the brown derby hats should be handed out to the convention delegates, before or after the nomination...
...shoddy shoes she hated, the unmatching coat and trousers that she detested, the vests she abhorred and the hats she longed to burn--all these will soon be gone. Though Harvard be ungallant as a whole, there lives still a certain saving quality that may yet redeem many sartorial barbarisms...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were...
...Paris Ritz in the bar of which countless roustabouts have spent their leisure hours. Charlie Ritz, the one of César's two sons now living, has little of his father's interest in the hotel business, though it was last week rumored that he intends soon to share with his mother the management of the Ritz in Paris. An affable fellow, his mustache is waxed and he does not quite justify the magnificence of his last name...