Word: doubledealing
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Nevertheless, according to the most recent report of the Russian Information Bureau in Washington, the industrial output has increased fivefold in the last five years, while the individual output and the number of workers employed have doubled. The report reads in part:
The Story: Harry Rebhan bought (January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University...
Will Rogers, five weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue...
There was a mighty splash as 173 swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and...
"Come into this death house with me," began Mr. Grey. Lurid details followed. Among them: "Elliott, the official killer, stood to the right of him with a fiendish grin on his face. ... He leaped, literally leaped, to the switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot...