Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this week's (TIME, Aug. 20) account of Reconstructor McAdoo's prancing at the recent Santa Barbara fiesta, the word "mare" was used in description of Mr. McAdoo's mount If the newsgatherer who wrote the story will look closely at the picture accompanying the write-up he will see that he should have used "stallion"' or gelding" (as the case...
...Intermittent Reader Fenlason write to the Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc., Penn...
...Lido Girl is a monstrosity. It tells about a Greenwich Village filly who inspires a poet to write a book of poems, also a sculptor to make a nude statue, "The Lido Girl." She then goes around offering herself as inspiration to all and sundry. Finally, leaving a lover panting on the stage, she goes away to Australia...
Another book writer is tense, talkative Pundit William Hard. Who's Hoover? he propounded this year in 274 pages of undismayed analysis.- His wife Anne Hard and his daughter, Eleanor, write politics-for-women in the Herald Tribune and Junior League Bulletin, respectively...
...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 the tire companies were piling up deficits, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward showed largest...