Word: threading
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...year-old Master Replogle was that he was carried several miles downstream, clinging to the onetime roof of his onetime home. The indirect result was that, his family penniless, he entered the steel industry as an office boy for Cambria Steel. Rapidly he climbed, his invention of a thread-rolling machine giving him additional impetus. In 1916, a director and member of the executive committee, he was instrumental in selling Cambria's control of Midvale Steel & Ordnance...
...hearty appetite and a short deep scar? in his cheek, Manager Robinson, 66, has worked at baseball every summer for 50 years. He caught for the Baltimore "Orioles" when John McGraw played for them. Once a pitched ball broke one of his fingers, left it hanging by a thread of skin...
...Juan-les-Pins up stepped Major John ("Dashing Jack") Coats, millionaire Englishman, no relative of the potent thread-spinning house of Coats. Most experienced gambler next to the Greeks, he had just won 1,000,000 francs from the Syndicate. He would take over the bank, hold it all summer if need be "to break the Greek Syndicate and put baccarat in the hands of sportsmen who play for the love of the game." "Sportsmen," he gallantly declared, "do not necessarily play for profit...
...addition to being the President's social aide and knowing by heart the official precedence list of Washington down to the National Screw Thread Commission, Mr. Robbins is also U. S. Minister to El Salvador. A Harvard graduate, a member of New York's Knickerbocker Club and Washington's Metropolitan, he has had long service as a U. S. career diplomat in Berlin, Paris, Mexico City...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This fragile but witty drawing room piece, successful on the Manhattan stage last year, is the sort of thing that the talking cinema in its present stage of development can do best. No Hollywood hack writing has been permitted to change the thread of the story, although the prelude of unhappy married life has been elaborated. Norma Shearer takes two parts-first a dowdy wife whose husband is tiring of her, and later, with an astonishing and somewhat overdramatic change in personality, a seductive divorcee. At a house-party given by an elderly woman...