Word: beane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions of dollars yearly. It was costing money to make money...
Price of a New York Stock Exchange seat is like Jack-the-Giant-Killer's bean stalk-steadily it climbs higher. Last week it was, for a few hours, $215,000. Then William H. Bade, 29, onetime Princeton baseball captain, paint dealer, appeared; paid $217,000. Stockbroker Edward A. Pierce who sold that seat must pay approximately $4,000 New York State tax, about $20,000 Federal...
...member of several undergraduate clubs, rowed on his class crew, and served as Treasurer of his Class Day Committee. Graduating from College in June, 1917, he assumed, in February, 1918, the duties of the office of Graduate Secretary, filling the place left vacant by the resignation of A. F. Bean '03. In this capacity he has served ever since his graduation...
...tired of publishing the callow judgments of undergraduates about courses given by instructors against whom they have a grudge--a practice which. I note, has already hardened into a "tradition"--they should give some space to really worth while causes. If one omits from one's consideration the Boston bean, a disgrace to civilized cookery but possibly a good substitute for bullets in case of another emergency like the Revolutionary War, I know of nothing more offensive than this latest measure...
That the shot took effect was seen when British Delegate Sir Walter Runciman, genial shipping magnate, remarked candidly: "It looks like friend Muspratt got it right on the bean...