Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additional evidence that the glittering key, outward and visible sign of learning and erudition, is still at least as highly desired as those inestimable but nebulous aids to the bond house such as "contacts" and "activities," is revealed in the proposal to increase membership in the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa from 45 to 65 from a class...
Early in May, Mr. Travis and associates incorporated the American Motor Transportation Co. in Delaware to take over the operating rights and facilities of several bus lines in the East and Midwest. And last week (a fortnight later) Bond & Goodwin & Tucker, investment house was selling preferred stock in the company. California Transit controls the voting stock. Mr. Travis is president of both companies...
...within the buildings of the neighborhood grey-faced clerks squealed instructions at each other; boys with skins like cellar-grown mushrooms pattered to and fro; nervous bookkeepers scratched names of stocks and bond issues along blue cross lines, drew pothooks down between red and green lines. Theirs was the moil of days, nights* and holidays caused by 3 and 4 million share days...
...after that, as the school year books say, comes life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most...
...Silent House-BOND THEFT LAID To YELLOW FIEND...