Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicious menace of that word has been long savored by people who have yielded to the importunity of a megaphoning bus-starter and have ridden THROUGH CHINATOWN FOR $1. On such rides they beheld Orientals going and coming in the streets, with the short scuffling step and the furtive stoop which they have borrowed from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows...
...fact that U. S. films have proved, mainly unintentionally, a rich publicity and sales agent for U. S. goods abroad. In consequence, since the Baldwin Government's subsidy to the coal industry, British film producers are now demanding a similar subsidy for their business. They declare that this step is necessary if British colonies are not to be slowly but surely Americanized by our exported films...
...Glide, glide, glide, STEP, step...
...Glide, glide, glide, step, STEP...
...recovery from the agricultural depression of 1920-1921 has been accomplished step by step and industry by industry. In 1921 dairying began to enjoy stabler conditions. In 1922 cotton recovered from the worst of its post-war slump. Hogs brought better prices in 1921 and 1922. Corn rallied in 1923 and wheat last year. All this while the cattlemen, however, have been vainly looking for brighter skies. Only recently here conditions favored this long depressed industry...