Word: tiring
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...sardonic member of the Swanee Sisters, she accompanies the action with a running fire of contemptuous comment on Raft, the radio, the Swanee Sisters' sponsor, a socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked...
...Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from our patio or out of our screened porch which looks out directly on the sea. It is all so beautiful, so restful to us old folks...
...home for liberated slaves. Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa. Slavery is rampant in the interior, so is malaria. Both have made inroads in neighboring British and French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would be more than pleased if the U. S. would accept a mandate over Liberia. The U. S. has persistently dodged. Roaring defiance in Manhattan last week Liberia's dusky...
Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
...Most people had never heard of Canada Dry ginger ale and the U. S. pop business had no chic when, in 1923, Parry Borland Saylor became head of the U. S. branch of Canada Dry Co. of Canada. A sharp, aggressive onetime tire salesman, he made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag...