Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albuquerque is a well-known picturesque stopping-off place in New Mexico for tourists who wish to watch Indians weave blankets. New Mexico is one of the 48 states of the Union. Last week the Albuquerque Advertising Club sent to the State Legislature a resolution proposing to change the name of the state to Coolidge...
...Today he farms an acre of wheat for $8. The Government standard for efficiency is $16.50. Following his example, he says all farming should be done by great corporations. Great corporations can get credit from banks which view the "farmer" with alarm. Great corporations can develop new inventions,* can watch markets, can hire the efficient and fire the inefficient...
...Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned the Premiership. "Mes amis," asked Premier...
...small boy with a bat and a batting eye who can find someone to pitch to him, will bat for hours, will cry, "Chuck us another! Watch me knock it outa the lot!" Joy is his. Among adults, the same joy is experienced by the woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately...
...catastrophic. Firemen on foot, carrying extinguishers elbowed? passage through the crowds. Policemen were angry. Gum-chewers gaped. There were at least 15,000 Wall Street clerks there, crowded so thickly that they forced Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s employes to fight their way out of the smoked banking offices to watch their own fire...