Word: needless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Albert,"† Prince Consort of Queen Victoria! After all, mused many a scientist, is not Edward, spontaneous sponsor of such vivid fashions as green leather coats, more admirable than his ramrod-backed great-grandpapa, creator of that appalling garment, the "Prince Albert?" Prince Consort Albert, needless to relate, deserved well of Science by his indefatigable championship of the Great Exposition of 1851 against the opposition of both the Lords and Commons, and his employment of its surplus profit of ?150,000 to found the present Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Throughout his life he exhibited a passion...
...more publicity than any other man in the world's history, does not believe in advertising. "Cut it all out. ... I never did believe in it." So, at least, he is reported to have been reported in a current advertisement of the George Batten Company, Advertising Agents. Needless to say, the Batten Company made Mr. Ford's alleged statement an indictment, not of advertising, but of Mr. Ford. "Armstrong," the Batten ad went on, "is mentioned, and you think of beautiful patterns and colors of linoleum for every floor in the house. Hamilton is the name...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, unrivaled pulp-Moloch, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post. (See p. 26.) Mr. Curtis' taste in, and love of, music fits harmoniously with that of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Bok. Father and son-in-law, are, needless to say, chief patrons of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
...defends the needless slaughter of two respectable horses in the name of art, by that master craftsman Schwarz. Splendid! Bravo, brave Busch...
Export Worry. The current excess of U. S. imports over exports ($130,000,000 the first quarter of this year) is causing needless worry, Dr. Julius Klein, director of the Department of Commerce bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, last week told New England foreign traders. He asserts that European financial recovery although it will strengthen competition for U. S. goods, will also enable the Europeans to buy in greater and greater quantities...