Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar bills will start coming off the presses on Nov. 1, but will not reach the public's hands until February (after a two-month's supply has been put in the Treasury reserve). Twelve bills will be printed on each sheet going through the presses, instead of eight as is the case with the present bills. Half of the bureau's 5,000 employes will be used in producing the new bills...
That man did not appear. Instead came Warden William Hendry with the words: "Well, boys, it's all off. ... Buck up. Be men and start eating...
...truss up dilapidated chambers for the heedless hundreds who have arrived without provision. It is the season of the world-famed Festival, when Max Reinhardt? produces old plays in a manner always unique. The one thing visitors can be reasonably sure of in these Festivals is that they will start with a play related in some way to religion, in accordance with the ecclesiastical traditions of the town. This year, at last, it was Everyman, the morality in which God, in a wig, does lusty battle against Satan for the soul of Man, before the ancient doors of the Salzburg...
...life been easy for "Willie" Hearst? Success is all around him. It is true he had the ten-year start on life which family millions give to any man. Unlike many a man, he has worked hard with them. His success has meant ceaseless work; and that (for the few men who like it) is easy. Politically life has been hard. He wanted to see "President Hearst" streaming across the pages of his newspapers. He' did not see it. Socially, who can say whether life has been hard or easy...
...some yodeled, some called "John!" It was planned to hold a series of eliminations, pick a state champion. Interest in the contests has surpassed that in recent hog-calling tournaments. Rules announced: Call must be penetrating to reach husbands far on the prairie; must be of a kind to start husbands home, not in the opposite direction; contestants are restricted to calling their own husbands...