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...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...almost upside down but doesn't quite go over, I hold it there for ten seconds. I let it ring three times, and then hold on the other side for ten seconds, keeping this up for five minutes. I do all this by giving the rope exactly the right pull. For Sunday chapel, I wait ten seconds between each stroke...
...with steadiness. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, 31, of Santa Barbara, headed all the contestants in the endurance race from New York to San Francisco to New York in 1919, and made a duration flight last year of 36 hours, refueling in the air. He is good for a long pull...
...beginning to get on my nerves. . . . Just let me get in the ring with Harry Wills and I'll win in a round or two. They tell me that Wills has a habit of grabbing an opponent around the neck with his left hand and then, as he pulls him in, Harry hooks his right to the body. Well, let me tell Wills, that he'd better not try that trick on me. That style of fighting is my dish. When he puts that left around my neck to pull me in, I'll slip right around...