Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute Jewish criminal lawyer offered Miss Inescort a job on his staff. Another episode of the tour: at Detroit, though he did not appear at a performance. Henry Ford mended the Inescort watch...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, as usual, would direct his side of the battle from his famed olive-green staff car, an especially built and armored railway carriage containing every implement required by a Generalissimo...
...stadium has been granted to Dartmouth and Stanford for their football game on November 28, 1931, it was announced yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics at Harvard. Harvard will take no part of the gate receipts, and has offered its entire staff of ushers and ticket takers for service at the game...
...touch with markets of various products which are frequently purchased, and finally, to provide a certain amount of sales resistance in opposition to the professional salesman. It is obvious that only men who understand the requirements of a business are really desirable as members of the purchasing department staff, and the general rule that a man should have experience in the line, before going into the staff, is here exemplified...
...little to recommend it. The story starts nowhere, gets now-where. The style is tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the most Moronic cast. Attempting, evidently, to give an impressionistic picture of the emotions of a rather sensitive reporter in the pay of a sensation-trusting city staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads at the top of each page, the running together of several words in the foreign manner, and the common use of such perfectly good nouns...