Word: arens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreman Bank to get their money even after the deal was announced. The Foreman president, able Banker Walter William Head, assured them everything was all right, jumped on a chair to shout "Now, all of you who believe me raise your hands. All right, then, all of you who aren't afraid get out of the way and let those who are afraid get up to the windows and get their money." Few came up; some of these had foolishly taken their money, deposited in First National whither it would have gone if not withdrawn...
...week ceased their clatter while one of them went into a musty cellar and brought up a hatful of squirming kittens. Behind him trailed a proud, wild mother tabby. He said: "That makes 75 kittens we've rescued since we started work less than two weeks ago. We aren't always able to take the mother cat, and when we can't catch her . . . the men just work around the little family until the little ones are strong enough to be moved...
Your report of the midnight burial in Kansas City has made me change my will. Old folks like me aren't much to look at any way and I have written, "Just close the coffin and put me down in the ground quietly without anyone having to see more than necessary of this sadness." Death is going to be mysterious, I know, and if my friends are afraid to follow me to a graveyard at night I don't want them there, I'll go it alone. For anyone who does care to go, it ought...
Newshawks soon swooped upon Miss Mathews for confirmation, elaboration. A "bribe" was paid before appointment, she explained. A "present'' is made after and she knew nothing about bribes. She said: "Women aren't really on the inside of politics anyway. I guess I'll have to get out of Tammany Hall after this...
...bones about that. Usually I am admitted, and a surprising number of the bartenders have heard of me. Sometimes the customers drink in my presence. . . . Usually when they hear what I have to say the drinking stops, for I always say to the bartender or the owner: 'Aren't you ashamed to be in such a contemptible business?' " Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan of New York Edison Co. were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department-store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, what made Madame Queen faint...