Word: circular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dressed, the President passes down a broad centre hall to the main staircase, or to the automatic elevator, which is nearer. On his left are guest rooms, furnished with tester beds, highboys, oldtime "wash-stands," rockers, clothes presses. On his right is the circular family sitting room, flushed with sunlight, a room with a generous fireplace, favorite easy chairs, favorite books, personal keepsakes-a warm home-like chamber...
...course of a 1,623-word mass-circular letter mailed last week, soliciting new subscriptions (and offering royal scarlet art-pattern atlases as a premium), wrote Publisher Wilfrid John Funk of the Literary Digest...
Recriminations. The House's debate was fanged with many a poisonous word, mostly spewed at the Anti-Saloon League and its attempt to dominate the House by a circular letter from Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride sat in the visitors' gallery, facing the Speaker and behind the festooned clock, through which for years Wayne B. Wheeler used to peek out as his minions did his will on the floor below...
Señor Sanchez Guerra has been living in Paris for some years, and, last week, he reached Valencia from France on a small especially chartered steamer?two days late. The delay?occasioned by a breakdown of the steamer?necessitated a circular telegram to revolt leaders throughout Spain, ordering postponement. Apparently the garrison at Ciudad failed to receive the order, went off halfcocked, and thus revealed the plot to the government...
...rumor was built an even grander story of a billion-dollar trust, backed by Mr. Cutten and his associates, and entering many key industries with a specialized investment trust for each. Thus, Petroleum Corp. would be the oil section and the proposed motor trust the automobile section of a "circular" trust in many fields and on gigantic scales...