Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (The Open Door, The Quest, Watch Fires}, Mrs. James Roosevelt. Owen D. Young, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. many an other bigwig, poetic or unpoetic. Said Mrs. Bullock: "Poets must eat. . . . Our entire purpose is to free genius from the necessity of gaining a livelihood by almost any means except the means it was born...
...young Mr. Harriman, who, like his father before him, now chairmans the Union Pacific's board, stepped into his company's newest train, sat down in a Pullman named "E. H. Harriman." Also aboard were U. P.'s President Carl Raymond Gray, and many an other bigwig. This was no ordinary train; it was the railroad's answer to aviation-a sleek streak of canary-yellow speed...
...President's deliberate ambiguity about his money plans did not encourage supersensitive businessmen, whose apprehensions he had spent the last three weeks trying to assuage through quiet missionary work among bigwig White House visitors. That very day a White House guest had been Morgan Partner Russell Cornell Leffingwell, a potent Democrat and Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Twenty-four hours later, Business was given something to get really jittery about...
...should have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched the back of Democracy's latest, queerest duckling. Instead, spunky Editor Moley wrote...
...Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. adapted by Jessie Ernst: A. H. Woods, producer). Baron Cassini (Francis Lister) is a bigwig of the Paris Bourse. Eugene Charlier (Francis Lister ) is a peewee entertainer at the Red Cat Cabaret. They look alike. When business reasons make it expedient for the Baron to be in two places at once, he goes to England while Charlier impersonates him at home. When the Baron returns, he hops into bed with the Baroness (Ruth Weston), thinking she thinks he is his double. Out of this situation Authors Lothar and Adler work the last bit of suggestiveness...