Word: tires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
...Tire Prices. Tire manufacturers reduced their prices 10% to 20%, an average of 11%, last week, and at the same time re-established their spring dating practice. Under this system dealers are not billed for tires they receive during winter months until the following spring, when they have cashed in. It is practically selling on consignment...
...except, perhaps, as a starting point for conversation; and it is questionable whether or not they even have any news interest. Nevertheless they form a goodly part of the daily reading matter of the average person. The public will never cease loving generalizations but it may eventually tire of what any honest editor would label as so much bologna...
...queer thing that I never tire of talking to you, whereas I've remarkably little to say to my husband...
...King's only anxiety was that the motor should not fail, but as His Majesty said to me: 'It responded as though made human by the necessity.' And he never lost a tire on the way. Luck was with...