Word: till
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around; and so out of proportion are most U. S. productive facilities to actual needs of consumption, that very quickly overproduction occurs. Prices then break, output is sharply restricted and a temporary period of depression in industry follows until surplus stocks can be worked off. Then everything marks time till demand again appears, when the whole process is repeated...
...plot deals with the struggle of three budding young geniuses a doctor a lawyer and a financier to ward off the wolf till their respective ships come in. The first two have never had a client and the tried. Chubb has only ideas And very excellent ideas they turn out to be. For instance, the doctor's ailing landlady, who has let him keep his room because of professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner...
...member of the family. He immediately takes the bridal suite for the two on the Bermudan, sailing for the blessed isle of the onion, lily and bottled goods that evening. Things grow more and more strained, not to say tense, but the play goes on till a general showdown occurs on the deck of the ship and Mary decides that doctors aren't so bad; while her aunt discovers in the uncle a long lost lover...
...most glamorous part of which is its title. The cannibals revealed in it, a prey to the devouring diseases of civilization, are akin to Barnum's dog-faced man. Their vanishing, from the samples shown here, will not make them missed. Wildly advertised orgies have been emasculated, till all that remains is a form of nocturnal shimmying by the tribe...
About five years ago, Samuel Untermyer, famed lawyer and capitalist, purchased a 32-acre tract at Palm Beach for $75,000. Critics at the time declared the price excessively high. Lawyer Untermyer held on till recently, when he vindicated his judgment by selling out his ocean-front property for $775,000-a profit of nearly...