Word: typee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Republican newspaper editors were flaying with...
...cannot appropriation be made subject to such distribution as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine after thorough investigation; part for Coast Guard, part for customs, part especially for Canadian border; part for doubling or trebling present field force, increasing salaries to induce higher type men to apply for this responsible and hazardous work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals...
...little difficulty in assuring himself of the tangible properties back of his engraved certificates. A Pennsylvania Railroad stockholder can visit almost any eastern railroad station and watch his stock come clanging in. A Radio Corporation stockholder can hear his stock coming out of any cigar-store loudspeaker. Yet the type of corporation which is the outstanding feature of today's investment world has physical assets consisting chiefly of office equipment. This corporation is the Investment Trust?a company formed to trade in the stocks of other companies, a company whose stock is backed only by other stocks. Yet this paper...
Inasmuch as runabouts of this type are usually priced at about $3,000, Mr. Wolfe's exhibit attracted un usual attention. Mr. Wolfe has a distinct profile resem blance to John Barrymore. His catalog contains the profile and also a back cover illustration of a Meteor ambulance...
...purpose of the contest is to find out the type of college students prefer to attend, and to encourage thinking and writing about standards of academic life. No essay should be more than 2000 words in length...