Word: bond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail in the morning. Each furnished a $300 bond. No one seemed to know who owned the suitcase. "Plain Bill" offered to let the raiders search his person; said he was merely an invited guest who was enjoying a little fishing by day and poker by night...
...supplant steam, but only locally. I described the discipline of employes and touching on railroad management, said: 'It is character and power of will that enables one, as a leader, to control masses of men. He must subject all alike, himself included, to that discipline which is a bond stronger than iron; more impervious than adamant. He must have not only courage and endurance, but also that indefatigable quality called "pluck," and, as well, instinct, that incomprehensible something which takes the bird to its nest in the vast sameness of the prairie, or the bee to its home...
George might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such...
...Francisco the western office of Doremus & Co., advertising agency, was a "madhouse." The Western Power Corp. had entrusted its advertising of a $10,000,000 bond issue to this office, for simultaneous publication in Manhattan, Chicago and Boston. That was not unusual. Doremus & Co. are the largest financial advertising agency in the country. They have 324 accounts, practically every one a potent banking or investment house, such as Morgan & Co., Speyer & Co., Guaranty Trust Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., General Motors Acceptance Corp. One does not hold such customers by ordinary service. They want arch-service...
...Young Men, and all that Mr. Kendall has any right to attempt is bondsalesmanship in three lessons. The extended paw and the unrelenting finger of the go-getter is his. His flair for comedy saves him at times, but after all nothing is so invaluable to a bond salesman as the ready joke...