Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traveling salesmen who swelter in upper berths have often jawed in stuffy washrooms about "these doggone high Pullman rates." In particular they suspected some sort of capitalistic iniquity in the item of a 50% Pullman surcharge accruing to the railroad...
Onetime Laborite Premier James Ramsay Macdonald enjoyed little sleep last week at his comfortable London home, Upper Frognal Lodge. Night after night the House of Commons resounded through wearisome post-midnight hours as the 150 Laborite M. P.'s fought and filibustered against Premier Baldwin's irresistible phalanx of 413 Conservatives. At last Mr. Macdonald suffered the ignominy of seeing his forces become so disorganized that many a hot-headed Laborite howled such unparliamentary epithets as "coward," "liar," "murderer." ( This unbridled rowdyism burst forth, of course, when the Government began to force through the Commons its long heralded...
...year or to mark his 63rd year with the bank, on July 25. At Rochester, N. Y., 13,269 employes of the Eastman Kodak Co., received $2,786,165 in one broad bonus-more than $200 each. At Luling, a small oil town of south central Texas, on an upper fork of the Guadalupe river, there was a wild rush to buy new automobiles. The United North & South Oil Co. of the locality had just been sold for $12,100,000, of which its Promoter Edgar B. Davis was giving away in bonuses $2,000,000. Some individuals received...
...furious decades his impetuous voice and heron-like countenance were heard and seen in the thickest of thick fighting, plot and counterplot, through jungles, over the lofty Peruvian sierras, among the Caribbean Islands; until Venezuela and New Granada were liberated as the republic of Colombia; until upper Peru became Bolivia (1825) and the rest of that country was a free republic...
...myths," namely, Roughing It Like a He-Man in the North Woods. The chief culprit is round, thick, heartily self-satisfied E. Wesson Woodbury, village fatboy grown up to hosiery sales-manager, who backslaps his tired little lawyer-friend Ralph Prescott into taking a canoe trip to Mantrap Landing, upper Canada, and then bully-rags him for a tenderfoot after flies, rain, solitude have dispelled the jimmy-pipe dream...