Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wall Street. For those who do not know it already and for those who like to hear it repeated, this play dilates upon the fact that in Wall Street there is little or no virtue. Take John H. Perry (Arthur Hohl) for instance. The grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled...
...York City last week, Irwin Blum, 10-year-old Bronx boy, became curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...
...Manhattan, druggists sold little rubber earplugs designed to frustrate noise. These were sold to persons who could not sleep because of truck whistles, "L" rumblings, radio squeakings, jazz shriekings...
...structure. For supports, braces and superstructures to this he can furnish other companies that he controls-Durant Motors Inc. (makers of Star and Durant motor cars), American Plate Glass Co., Motors Parts Corp., New Process Gear Co., Warner Corp., Locomobile Co. of America (Locomobiles), Adams Axle Co., Mason Motor Truck...
...James Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. They did not know that the emphatic doctors were enjoying themselves, giving a sound thrashing to other members of their profession. The doctors knew that their advice was good; they knew too that it would be followed, as a levee laborer follows a hand truck, lethargically. Theoretically, in the medical profession, a doctor is an enterprising individual; practically he is a follower of group thought. It takes strong shouting to start a professional group towards action. The doctors at Chicago spoke vigorously...