Word: backwardation
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Meanwhile the Standard Union, which had been aiming at virtually the same class of reader and advertiser, slipped steadily backward. Recognizing the duplication, Publisher Peck tried to buy the competing paper at public auction in 1926, finally got it last week. Its circulation...
Object of the search was the most famous child on earth, whose birth, and, up to last week, whose life were jealously guarded secrets. So successfully did his parents keep his name and face out of the Press that ignorant gossip whispered that he must be backward, deaf, perhaps defective. But four photographs of Charles Augustus had ever been made public, one of them snapped surreptitiously last summer in Maine when his parents were flying to China. Now there issued forth from Col. Lindbergh's private collection cinema films by the score. These went broadcast through the land by mail...
...agreeable atmosphere about the R.K.O. Keith theatre that lends itself to the enjoyment of the films projected; Leo Weber plays enthusiastically upon the organ, the latest news events and well-selected short subjects are regular features of the program. This week Mae Clark, the appealing blonde who plunged backward out a window away from brutal newshawks, in "The Front Page," and Lewis Ayres, the sensitive and rather bewildered German boy of "All Quiet on the Western Front," play in "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar to mass production...
...what part of the ice to use, instructed her to keep her beady toque straight on her head. Attached to her dress, Sonja Henje had a rabbit's foot which she did not need. Her performance-a Paulsen, a spreadeagle, a Lutz jump, a Jackson Haynes spin, a backward sweep to the finish-was less original than polished and assured, but it caused 8,000 spectators (one of whom paid a speculator $60 for two tickets) to agree with the judges when she won the championship...
...Rhoads was not obliged to leave his researches in Manhattan. But that, of course, did not terminate the agitation which was ricocheting throughout Porto Rico, an agitation typical of the prejudice with which the Foundation is obliged to contend in many backward countries...