Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gladstone founded a great tradition, since observed by many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak a language of the highest and strictest principle and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...will not, in the event of ratification of the Franco-U. S. debt accord, throw any bonds received in payment on the security markets of the world, a possibility under Article VII of the agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...
Colonel Nelson was an able and conscientious editor. His paper was a paper of "ideals"-none more so. His habit of printing a great deal of miscellaneous but accurate information about science, invention, exploration, literature, made the Star a sort of university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those...
...they would say in Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still an old Spanish town. Its population is only 7,500 including some progressive citizens. Recently its Chamber of Commerce issued an invitation to women leaders to establish a sort of Chautauqua to which clubwomen from surrounding states might come for three months each summer. Permanent buildings were to be erected, and it was expected some 3,000 would annually visit there. Merchants were pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make...
...salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control of G. L. Miller & Co., a real estate investment house with branches in 20 cities and business connections with some 500 banks. They reorganized...