Word: household
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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County bank. Later they progressed to Des Moines, to Chicago. Banker Stevens began his career in a Preston (Minn.) wagon factory as a small but husky boy, working overtime to help his mother balance the household accounts. At 20, he embarked for the nearest big city, which happened to be Minneapolis. He worked for the F. H. Peavey Co., who are now the largest grain merchants in the U. S. He became an investment banker. When he was 46, he went to Chicago, as vice president of the old Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Last year he became president...
...believed in Buddha, but suddenly my mother fell ill. I prayed long and earnestly, and with full faith before our household Buddhistic idol but my mother died. That shook my faith in idols...
Softsoap. It was not difficult to persuade Mrs. Coolidge that she should not make her own soap. But 120 years ago, such persuasion was the chief problem of soap salesmanship. Soap making was a routine occupation of every household. The eighteenth century housewife thought of buying soap as the twentieth century housekeeper would think of buying fried eggs for breakfast. The first soap manufacturers had to be clever psychologists. They had to make it smart to buy soap...
...Airplane" is now a household word. So is "airship." Careful households, capable of distinctions, use words correctly, do not confuse airplanes with airships. Aid is offered by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Definitions...
Died. Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Marquess of Lincolnshire, 85, Ancient of English Liberalism, Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, successively (1881-85) Captain of the Royal Bodyguard; (1885-90) Governor of New South Wales; (1892-95) Lord Chamberlain of the Household and (1905-11) President of the Board of Agriculture; at High Wycombe, England...