Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of New York thanked the Governor of Nebraska, reflected that the "raddio"* is indeed a marvelous thing, and sat down at the Governor of Nebraska's desk...
BLUE SHADOWS - WHAT D'YA SAY: Two musical show numbers. OK. TED LEWIS: play JUNGLE BLUES - A JAZZ HOLIDAY. If you like that sort of thing...
...there are too few men out to compose any kind of a team. Usually there are from 35 to 40 Freshmen candidates. This year there are but 20. The same thing holds true in the case of the University squad...
...than 3,000,000). Its advertising rate is $16,000 per page. Its contents are entirely lurid: huge pictures and meaningless text about the scandals of Europe's lesser nobility, dinosaurs, spooks, freaks of science, etc. Eleven years ago, Publisher Hearst, despairing of selling advertising in such a thing, offered to give one Albert J. Kobler a big commission for every advertisement sold. From this commission, Salesman Kobler soon derived a five and then a six figure income. Last week, over the signature of Mr. Kobler, a curious full-page advertisement appeared in New York newspapers. It read...
...inhabitants of New York City, ''Diamond LiP' means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...