Word: doubledealing
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In the other current of news, breadlines in New York City stretched out for blocks. The Bowery Y. M. C. A. was feeding 12,000 jobless per day. Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church Around the Corner") opened, for the first time since 1907, free meal counters...
"Whiskey Capital." The benefits of Prohibition in Louisville, Ky.?once the "whiskey capital" of the U. S.?were depicted by its citizen Henry H. Johnson who vowed that the country club expression, "the 19th hole," was now unknown in his State. Resorting to statistics, he declared that Louisville...
After studying in Germany, he returned in 1879 to join the Yale faculty as a tutor. Twenty years later he became Yale's 13th President, stipulating that he must be retired when 65. Under his regime the institution took an unprecedented scholastic polish. Its endowment was doubled. To wife...
Chain stores make money by piling up tiny profits. In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs. Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to...
Anyone who has not yet become acquainted with Corey Ford's rebuke to Joan Lowell, "Salt Water Taffy", will still find it well worth their while. Then there is "Ex-Husband" which followed with more alacrity than true conjugal consideration on the heels of "Ex-Wife". But there seems to...