Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Lord Birkenhead will discuss with Mr, Clarke he did not say, though a prospective $50,000,000 expansion campaign for his English company might well furnish an interesting topic of conversation. To U. S. newsmen, however, Lord Birkenhead spoke chiefly generalities. Said...
Last March the U. S. cinema interests in France, well knowing that Cineman Sapene had all but persuaded the French Government to tighten the one-for-seven quota to a struggling one-for-four, retaliated by refusing to release any new films in France until this threat was removed. As a result hundreds of French exhibitors have been losing money all summer, since their patrons would not come in paying numbers to see U. S. films left over from last winter or the distinctly inferior products of the French Cinema Trust. Last week's truce was no sooner signed than...
...Tall, well set up, grave-faced and pleasant of voice, William Philip ("Phil") Simms, able Foreign Editor of the U.S. Scripps-Howard Newspapers, would make an impressive character witness. Last week he was back at his Washington desk from China. Eager to testify that in his opinion all is substantially well with Chinamen, he was soon tapping at his typewriter. Pungently he wrote...
...them [Negro communicants] to be publicly and insultingly expelled for no other reason than their color, is not only contrary to the teachings and precepts of the founder of Christianity but is a gross violation of ordinary justice and common decency and courtesy. ... If it has your sanction, well, God help...
...huge menu of General Foods Corp. (1928 sales: $101,037,092) oysters join cereals (Postum, Grape Nuts, Post Toasties), beverages (Maxwell House Coffee, Instant Postum, Baker's Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products...