Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smashes his face. Down goes Louie, then up with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade, so you will learn it all the faster...
...rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There is even a bath-tub interlude. Prominent among the personalities is Will Mahoney, a vaudeville Celt who clogs swiftly and loudly and takes terrific tumbles which are funny because he, as well as the audience, feels them coming long before they happen. Mr. Mahoney also smears part of his face with lampblack and burlesques Mammy songs in a way which should, but probably will not, eliminate them as legitimate amusement. Ray Kavanaugh's orchestra, which helps to promote such fetching tunes...
...billion-dollar company to hold stocks of Electric Power & Light, National Power & Light, American Power & Light, American & Foreign Power, American Superpower, American & Foreign Power, though a Bond & Share company, has little community of interest with the other rumorees, carries on only abroad. Superpower, a Bonbright & Co., child, does extraordinarily well as it is. The other three rumorees, however, are direct, lineal descendants in the Bond & Share genealogy of holding companies, sub-holding companies, operators. A move which would merge these, put one in place of three, sounded logical to many...
With Ford plants again running on heavy schedules, with Model A carrying on the tradition of illustrious Model T, with steady growth of Ford European companies, Henry Ford is well pleased with the automotive business and vigorously engaged in making his company bigger, better than ever before. Heavy, however, has been the personnel overturn at the Ford plant, particularly executive personnel. Detroit has become almost blasé concerning appointments, rearrangements and resignations among the men who help make the Ford...
...which inspired George Ehret to keep his brewery open nearly Ten Years After. The same hope inspired his sons after his death in 1927. Near-beer, as such, would not have interested old George Ehret. From 1866 to 1920 he made real beer-drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition, he turned to near-beer as a makeshift, continued to hope...