Word: colds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take this opportunity to reassure Deputy Serat concerning researches and experiments which the government is making with respect to chemical and other advanced methods of warfare. They are being actively pressed by French scientists." In Nottingham, England, last week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going...
...public utilities for distribution instead of or in combination with artificial gas. Last week, Standard of California itself entered the public utility business by paying to A. E. Fitkin & Co. $26,801,327 for control of Pacific Public Service Co. which, besides peddling ice, ice cream, water and cold-storage space in southern California, sells gas and electricity to a large population just south of San Francisco Bay. Because by such means they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus...
Once through the Spence School (Manhattan) on a not too large allowance, once a debutante, Miss Oelrichs attacked the problem. Happily, advertisers had revived the testimonial idea and soon she became the most famed of testimonial-signers, signing for such products as Lucky Strikes, Ponds Cold Cream. The advertising advertised her as well as the products so that in 1927 she was able to sell Liberty a story called "What's the Matter with American Men?" which lauded foreign bachelors. Her career also includes going to night clubs, attending Broadway openings, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartmart...
...were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. There were not enough stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station and the night was getting cold. Stretcher bearers came in all the time, put their stretchers down, unloaded them and went away. As soon as I got to the dressing station Manera brought a medical sergeant out and he put bandages on both my legs. He said there was so much dirt blown into the wound...
...find Boston audiences cold! You see, I'm a Boston girl...