Word: consumptionism
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Out of the hopper of musical comedy pour the following morsels for summer consumption: Keep Kool, Chariot's Revue, I'll Say She Is, Kid Boots, Innocent Eyes.
Many, many years ago an opera called Cavalleria Rusticana was composed. It proved, as a vaudevillian would say, an immediate wow. Its Intermezzo, written as a time-filler to cover the distribution and consumption of oranges between the acts, has been scored for every known combination of instruments, including flute...
The consequences of agricultural prosperity are many and important. First, they will lead to conservative politics this Fall, and favor the re-election of Mr. Coolidge. By improving the farmer's buying power they should increase the consumption of manufactured goods with greater rail traffic as a result. This...
¶ House of Lords. Not much time has elapsed since the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Herbert Murray Burge, introduced to the House a bill to control consumption of alcoholic beverages by local option. The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also...
4) Retention of surtaxes on swollen incomes; restoration of the tax on excess profits, on stock dividends, profits undistributed to evade estates and taxes; rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties, especially on trust-controlled necessities ot life, and of nuisance taxes on...