Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emmett Lawrence was always on call, a rare and curious technician. He went to perform his unadvertised handiwork in most of the large Eastern cities. Among his placements were the two lions which crouch before the entrance of the New York Public Library. During 30 years of work, he never broke or marred a statue...
...Two years ago he contracted consumption. That dignified patrician, Sculptor George Grey Bernard, received the invalid into his studio and there he stayed for six months. Later he went to a hospital. At the end of a year, Sculptor Barnard took him back to the studio, where, last week, he died...
...Two among San Francisco tycoons have been thoroughly publicized. Who does not know that Robert Dollar was born in Scotland, is 85 years old, works from 12 to 16 hours a day, operates the Dollar Line, largest privately owned U. S. fleet? Famed too is Amadeo Peter Giannini, though his banking reputation has not invariably included the facts that he is a Papal Knight, that he suffers from chronic neuritis, that he does not approve of private offices. But with Dollar, with Giannini, the list of San Francisco financiers is only begun...
...continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent...
...testimonial dates back to advertising's patent medicine era. Familiar in the old days was the tale in which an ailing person, having "taken two bottles of your marvelous remedy," was quickly restored to blooming health. Later, as the conscience of advertisers and the standards of publishers improved, testimonials declined. It was probably the much discussed Pond's Cream series, featuring endorsements from Marie of Rumania and many another celebrity, which marked the return of the testimonial to advertising's most polished circles. Outstanding current examples of testimonial campaigns are the advertising of Pond's Cream...