Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison, though, was interesting for it proved that truth, stranger than fiction, is not as exciting when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should and does know city rooms such as the one in a corner of which his play begins and ends...
...francs in Paris, lire in Rome. This year, through the tourist bureau Sovtorg-flot, the United Soviet Socialist Republics held out greedy Bolshevist hands. Concessions to arrange Russian tours went to three trans-Atlantic steamship lines (Cunard, French, Holland-American). About 700 tourists have proceeded, or are proceeding, Moscow-ward...
...President does not make the laws. He does his best to execute them whether he likes them or not. The corruption in enforcement activities which caused a former Republican Prohibition Administrator to state that three-fourths of the dry agents were political ward heelers named by politicians without regard to Civil Service laws and that prohibition is the 'new political pork barrel,' I will ruthlessly stamp out. Such conditions can not and will not exist under any administration presided over...
Chief among these competitors were the houses of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., and Sears Roebuck & Co. Each announced drastic price cuts. Each advertised huge mileage guarantees. Montgomery Ward's "Super Service Riverside" tire carries a guarantee of 30.000 miles. Sears Roebuck gives its "Super Allstate" an assured life of 25,000 miles, proclaims: "No other manufacturer has dared to write such a guarantee," declares itself "America's Largest Distributor of Tires." But Montgomery Ward counters with the slogan. "World's Biggest Tire Dealer." The tire war seemed localized to the two principal mail order houses. While...
Last week, the results of many a year of statistic-gathering were told 60 students at the fashion clinic of the Amos Parrish Co. in the Savoy Plaza Hotel, Manhattan. Among the 60 were managers of fashionable shops, buyers, stylists, representatives of a mail order house (Montgomery, Ward & Co.), reporters (The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News). Each wanted to penetrate the mystery of fashion. Each had paid $200 for the opportunity...