Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short terms loans. Added to these funds were the payments made to share and bond holders, whose coupons were collectible at this quarter of the year. These payments amounted to approximately $300,000,000. Usually this money finds its way back into the market and acts as a spur to higher prices in stocks...
...have the feeling that Thompson's lowly feathers are plucked from the same bird that gave Cyrano his white plume and that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan is an authority on husbands & wives. In his newest farce, he sets down that "whereas a woman has a whole bagful of tricks, a man has only...
...trade as a house organ. It was recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman from a position of dignified obscurity among publications to a place of literary desirability...
...Beatissimus Pater Pius XI, content, bestowed upon His Majesty the highest decoration in the gift of His Holiness: the Order of the Golden Spur...
Since Jugoslavia is adjacent to the spur-wheel, ready to be prodded, it was the Jugoslav press of Belgrade which set up a cry last week that Italian officers in Albania are directing mobilization against Jugoslavia and hurrying the building of strategic roads. This charge was repeated by the Parisian press, for France and Jugoslavia are allies. Then King Alexander of Jugoslavia added to the war scare excitement...