Word: aristocratism
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...Aristocrat of the carriers, New York Central Railroad Co., found itself in urgent need of cash, applied to I. C. C. for permission to sell $100,000,000 of 5% bonds to mature in the distant year of 2013 and to be callable 5% above par in 1951. Never in receivership or reorganized in its 100 years of operation. New York Central faced a grave difficulty. Next month matures a large part of its $51,500,000 short-term loans and bank debts which it cannot meet with cash on hand. The road did not ask for permission to sell...
Esteban smelled powder early. He was only five months old when his Indian mother carried him through the battle of Cerro Caido, in the war of independence (against Spain). In the battle his mother lost her man but rescued an aristocrat. Don Geronimo Cerromayor, was adopted for her pains. So Esteban grew up with a fancy name, but there were still times when he felt like an Indian...
...time has passed when the nonpayment of debts was a pre-requisite of the aristocrat. That follow lived hard, died young, and rode to the Devil with the rest, fleeing before the window smashing that paved the way for our present commercial leisure class. His diaphanous lady has also gone the way of more flesh, and into her place swings the rebust, long-limbed woman of our time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that...
...Aristocrat Sirs...
Leaving Chicago for the West Friday morning, Sept. 18 was Burlington's luxurious Aristocrat (de luxe express train). Seated in the rear of its club car were ten men, three women. Not killing but devouring TIME, just out, were seven men, one woman. Caught out, many of your subscribers can't await TIME until they get home. F. F. McCAMMON...