Word: sweetened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
French ingenuity has managed, in the past to sweeten alluringly the uses of advertisement. Managers of theatres once obtained publicity by purchasing the services of some penurious gentleman, shaving his head, and seating him, haughtily tailored, in some famed cabaret, with a blurb for the show tattooed upon his naked poll. Last week a bouillon company evolved a sleight even more alarming. An army of ragged sandwich men was sent into the streets, armed with bundles of red feathers upon which the name of the product was printed in black. Each feather had a hook. The sandwich men hooked them...
...with debts to the U. S. and was or were to the effect that the Administration's attempt to collect the debts need not be taken as seriously as it sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with Finance Minister Caillaux of France, had told newspapermen France could not pay quickly...
Cuba, shaped like a Dill pickle, sweetens the world with its sugar. But Cuba's politics do not sweeten its foreign relations. Aside from the small matter of the Cuban lottery, which occasioned the temporary return of our Ambassador, General Crowder, to consult with the State Department (TIME, Aug. 13, Aug. 27) there is the Tarafa Railroad Bill...