Word: backhandedness
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1931, which began July 1, has seen a great change in the financial situation. A surplus of $122,788,966 had been predicted, but its computation did not take into account the effect of the temporary 1% income tax reduction. The President's only mention of the stockmarket crash...
In the closing innings the Crimson hitters began to find the offerings of the Holy Cross southpaw and straighten them out for solid hits where before they had dribbled feebly to the infield. There were two men on base, none out, and trembling hesitancy in the Holy Cross stands in...
Astrology. Hardly to be mentioned in the same breath with the above phenomena is the science of astrology, famed father of astronomy. Whether or not one believes in the influence of stars on human destiny, there is no denying that reputable astrologists go about their work with the precision of...
A photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in...
Although a Republican mob may not force the Democrats to shout with them or be black-jacked in the old fashioned Pickwickian way, it may derive a fine feeling of self-satisfaction in being merely the largest mob. There is a unit in the parade tonight for every energetic Republican...