Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guess was Joe Cook. In the music halls Mr. Cook was what is known as a "wow." Particularly was he famous for his involved absurdities relating to just why a man of his wealth and position should not be called upon to imitate four Hawaiians. Counting on the permanent wave of popular esteem to carry him through the Vanities, Mr. Carroll gave him infinite opportunity. Mr. Cook fell down. He fell down not once but many times. The first few times it was funny...
...Blue Sea, Silver Wave, Belinda and Iskum, American trading schooners, were detained by Soviet officials at East Cape, Siberia. It was stated that the British Hudson Bay Company had obtained exclusive rights to trade on the north Siberian coast, and thus the American ships were violating the trade laws of the Soviet Government of Siberia...
...plan did not prove quite so simple in operation. All banks, since they were guaranteed against failure, loaned money right and left to everyone in sight. The wiser and sounder state banks took out national bank charters and thus retired entirely from participation in the program. In the wave of deflation during 1921 the remaining guaranteeing and guaranteed state banks met their Waterloo. The fund was wholly too small to pay off the depositors of the scores of insolvent banks in Oklahoma, and now the whole law has been abolished. Legislators are wiser, and depositors are poorer. If all such...
...Austrian cold wave. Also, the Parisian. Also the British. And the Italian...
...unfortunate part is that sorrow must remain. "We remember how we said good luck when we could not say goodbye". He then showed how there could be no help for sorrow in words but only in the thought expressed by words. At the news of Lincoln's death a wave of sorrow went over the country but those who felt it most said least...