Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consolidations became a public policy in 1920, grave doubts have arisen as to their present necessity. Carriers have improved financially by leaps and bounds, with few weak roads needing the aid of strong ones. The agitation in Congress for additional consolidation legislation is designed to give the roads a sort of power of condemnation whereby they can acquire lines necessary to round out their systems and win the I. C. C.'s approval. The prospect for this legislation at present is poor...
...likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes his clothes, Chanel his perfume; that he is inevitably late save for engagements of one sort. When he is scheduled to appear in concert he is always meticulously prompt for he feels it a grave responsibility to be José Iturbi, Spain's greatest pianist...
...Manhattan the club owners of the American and National Leagues held their annual meeting with Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the chair. In many hours of the sort of conferential argument known as bag-punching they discussed a point...
...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
...have you wash my feet.' And I would answer, 'Why, that's according to the contract, Dan'l.' And he would say other nice things to me. He told me he was a better man for having lived with me. Dan'l seemed sort o' mellowed all those last years...