Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ears of SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas tingled with pleasure when he received a telephone call from Partner George Whitney of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Whitney informed him that vast ($236,000,000) United Corp. was finally willing to discuss registering with SEC under the utility holding company act...
...truce has since gone down the drain in a barrage of New Deal attacks on Big Business. Last week Partner Whitney marched in to see Chairman Douglas in the flesh, told him that, after all, United would not register until the Supreme Court validates the Holding Company Act. What is more, said Mr. Whitney, United had never intended to do otherwise...
...study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene and violent, free in her manner but irreproachable in her conduct, she was indolent, simple, with a streak of exuberance and humor that could...
...motive for the act has been discovered by the medical examiner or by police, but it was said that he was probably the victim of over study...
...whores. . . . Throngs of hoodlums moved in secret, waiting for some one deed to start a great one." As a result, readers are not likely to have much confidence in his portraits of the good people of Boston, or to take without question the many scenes in which they act with violence. Boundary Against Night nevertheless melodramatizes its central point: that a society which falls into panic when a few policemen leave their beats is badly in need of a moral housecleaning...