Word: abjectness
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...Senators' counsel. Prize exhibit of the week's hearings was Samuel Insull Jr., whose father and uncle fled the country when their towers toppled. Short, spectacled, with a smile and spirit markedly like his cockney-born father's, Insull Jr. made a polite but far from abject witness. He testified that the Insull family once had paper profits of $25,000,000 on an original investment of $8,500,000 in Insull Utility Investments, Inc. Most of their stock was subscribed at $7.50 a share and they were given options on other big blocks...
Last week Vol. 1, No. 1 appeared. Selling at 50?, it is handsomely printed in octavo size, resembling Hound & Horn. The first issue had no pages and four pages of half-tones tipped in. Typical of the latter was "The Forgotten Man," an abject figure asleep in a cheap doorway. Contributors to the first issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard...
...Mild, abject Indians who somehow managed to spring bewildering surprises on both the First and the Second Indian Round Table Conference, managed to spring a few more last week, as dignified Scot MacDonald opened what he called, with characteristic optimism, "The Third and Final Conference...
...diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject poverty within sight of each other, but separated by an impassable gulf; leisure because of no need to work and enforced idleness because of no opportunity to work; the palace towering over the hovel; privilege and underprivileged...
...Dearest Dear: Unfortunately, this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation. You understand that last night was only a comedy. Paul...