Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melbourne Alsatian Club and the Queensland Shepherd Dog Association fought a hard fight for their favorite animal.* The office of the Minister for Agriculture and Stock in Queensland, has been snowed under with petitions, photographs and affidavits in defense of the amiability of Alsatians. Most of all Mr. Smith's office was inundated with pictures of famed Cinema Dog Rin-Tin-Tin. But, famed though he is for docility and discretion, not even Rin-Tin-Tin could save his brothers and sisters in Dingoland...
...showing a friend through a fish plant, he picked up a handful of fish meal (a hash-like, dry composite of ground up heads, tails and other fishy by-products), remarked: "Isn't it beautiful?" And when, last week, Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. announced an offering of new stock, the Taylor Process of fish freezing was prominent among its assets...
...spite of dull 2,000,000-share stock market days last week some specialty stocks remained buoyantly active. Utilities, congenitally defiant of the financial laws of gravity, were particularly strong. In addition to the general potency of such words "as "superpower," "giant power," they were inspired by rumor of mergers in New York State utility companies. Over-the-counter houses were selling shares in the new company before its formation was officially announced. Parties to the merger, described as a Morgan-Schoellkopf-Carlisle union, were...
...Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State championship...
...London, last week, the Film Actors Guild denounced U. S. talkies, attributed to them the collapse of the English cinemindustry, the unemployment of hundreds of cinemactors, cinemactresses, an eight million dollar shrinkage in stock valuation...