Word: exaction
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Anning S. Prall, Democratic Congressman from Staten Island, N. Y., recently spoke by radio. His friends crowded around to congratulate him, declaring that by radio his voice was an exact reproduction of President Coolidge's. The discovery is not without its serious aspects-or would be if Congressman Prall were not an honorable man. At least it is good material for a new story on "How My Double Undid...
...Board of Directors of the Society of American Florists clustered last week in Chicago. They had long admitted that business bagan blossoming with luxuriant new millions of dollars shortly after the slogan, "Say it with flowers!" first was used. Data were not published as to the exact hour when the precious words first unfolded, nor the posture, state of mind, diet and dress of their author at the moment of burgeoning. But the floral directors were at last able to express their belated thanksgiving. They voted last week that a gold medal be struck off, incrusted by a floral design...
...investigating magistrate, one Judge Trautwein, continued mum as to the exact nature of the offense which Bergdoll was alleged to have committed with a Heidelberg girl some three years ago. Said the cautious Judge: "It is just a simple case which concerns alleged offenses against the proprieties. All I can say is that Herr Bergdoll is being held in connection with certain complaints filed in behalf of some children, girls and boys...
After walking into the exact middle of the presentation of "His People", we have been mulling over this question of continuous movies. And it has occurred to us at length that the amount of enjoyment is proportionate to the number of reels still unshown at the moment of entrance. Actually this is not quite true, for a great many of our current movies can be divided into integral parts without any appreciable loss of interest. It is the producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch...
...voice, ability to cerebrate while vertical, and modern substitutes for the Demosthenic pebble, Dr. Covington studies the vocabulation of his charges. He estimates that the average educated person has a nodding acquaintance* with 18,000 English words, or possibly twice that number. It is very difficult to be exact. Ten years ago he took in hand a list of 100 words that should be recognized by this hypothetical person, and administered it to his students year after year. The students had to use each word in a sentence, and brilliant examples would come in, like this: p>"The great...