Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
...five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention a flock of lesser projects, the landscape is necessarily cluttered up a bit, and as a lot of the work is being done on the street TIME'S observer observed, he might very easily, being the sort of observer he is, have got the impression of ill-kemptness. . . . Greensboro building permits ran in a recent month to some...
Vulgar rhymes of this sort have long cast a quite unmerited mal-odeur upon the sausage business, and perhaps no man was more sensitive to the unfortunate effect of balladry than the late Adolf Gobel, sausage manufacturer. While recognizing, of course, that the Dunderbeck of the song was an entirely legendary figure, he could not do other than deplore the attitude of people who actually believed that when they ate liverwurst, bologna, or a bit of scampf, they were partaking of pulverized canine cadavers. Some thirty years ago this Adolf Gobel, who has done more, perhaps, for the sausage business...
...long ago. The earliest edition of the text is that "imprynted at London in Flete Strete by Richarde Pynson prynter to the Kynges moost noble grace" in 1509, but for almost a century before that it had trundled up and down England in creaking "pageant wagons." Entertainments of another sort wandered the countries also-the mummeries perpetrated by troubadours and tattered knaves who sang sweetly in the halls of great peers and bawdily for shillings under the windows...
...southern tier" of New York State-the lush butter-and-egg and grape juice counties along the Pennsylvania line-they all know Frank Ernest Gannett. He is the big newspaperman of the region; owns seven dailies, in Rochester, Utica, Elmira, Ithaca, Newburgh. He is a sort of little Munsey in his way, having consolidated various competing organs to make up his string, always keeping an eye open for fresh opportunities...