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...finest jewels of U. S. newspaperdom, was more like a resolutions committee-of-the-whole than like a convention. No one was elected to anything. No one was even nominated. After he had delivered himself of a 1,500-word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...
...This improvement is all on record. It does not represent an abnormal expansion of business, when measured against the needs to be filled and the capacity available to fill them, or when compared wit the past; and if the industries are allowed to operate with efficiency, keep their cost down, and price their goods at levels that will keep trade going, there will be little concern as to business in the second half year...
...McDuff received a court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
...grand, appétit). More complex rebuses are pictures whose elements, correctly named and put together, make up words or sentences. Printing six riddles of this type every week in 308 newspapers. P. Lorillard Co., makers of Old Gold cigarets, began last February the longest and best-sustained wit-baiting promotion on record by a U. S. advertiser. A puzzle contest axiom is that half the contestants will drop out before the finish. When the Old Gold contest closed last week, 85% of the starters were still hanging on for a chance at the unprecedented $100,000 first prize...
...write upon almost anything, including how they enjoy visiting their sister-in-law because of the way she makes fudge, but warning them that essays on camping will be automatically thrown out. So cavalier a tone is highly commendable: it tells the new men that they have an urbane wit to deal with, and that appeals for special dispensations will not receive very indulgent consideration...