Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tusk was found sticking in a river bank, which was 200 feat high, at that point. Half of the tusk was protruding from the bank, the other half being wedged between stratas of rock, as was discovered when excavations were made in the attempt to dig it up. This work took several days, as care had to be taken not to injure the tooth, which, although cracked in places, was otherwise in excellent condition...
...Clemenceau's Klotz the splendid sanitarium seemed preferable to jail-where Governor Emile Moreau of the Bank of France was trying to put him. To stern Governor Moreau a forgery is a forgery, even when perpetrated by a Senator of France. The nature of the forged paper was naturally not disclosed by the Bank; but such pressure was applied to M. Klotz that he tendered his resignation as Senator and submitted to arrest, pleading insanity, asking to be sent to Malmaison...
...went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman said it cost $5,000 cash. Mr. Chrysler had $700 in the bank at Oelwein. He borrowed $4,300 and shipped it home...
...fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage...
...affiliation between the Bank of the Manhattan Co. and International Acceptance is particularly important in the field of international banking. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. has hitherto confined itself chiefly to New York City, where it has built up some 50 branches. International Acceptance, on the other hand, with its Warburg German connections, has specialized in international enterprises. The combination in effect puts the combined resources of the two banks into the international field...