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Word: broker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene in court was peculiar. Clerks, bookkeepers, an accountant, a broker, a printer, a contractor and one resident of Park Avenue protested. Some laughed, others grew terribly angry, two waxed bellicose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Privileges, Duties | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...price of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange has been steadily rising. Last week a record was set when Broker A. L. Kerrigan, 31, of A. A. Housman & Co., paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Seat Price | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Engaged. Mrs. Gwendolyn Whistler Haughton, widow of Percy D. Haughton, famed Harvard and Columbia football coach who died last fall, grandniece of the late James Abbott McNeill Whistler, famed painter, to Augustin H. Parker, Boston broker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...Chicago, one John Donahue, broker, was playing bridge. He dealt himself a hand and was casually arranging the cards when suddenly the blood rushed to his face, then drained away; his wan lips twitched. "Beg pardon?" asked the opponent on his left, one Neutz, who had been waiting for Broker Donahue's bid. "One diamond," whispered Donahue. "Three spades," said Neutz. "Four diamonds," said Donahue, "five . . . six . . . seven." But Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a column called "Talk of the Town" signed Van Bibber III; an article on Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, by one Golly-Wogg; "The Theatre," by Last Night; "Art," by Froid; "Moving Pictures," by Will Hays Jr.; Wall Street Notes, by Well Known Broker. These Manhattanites chuckled at several jokes which they had chuckled at before, glared at several which they had never before encountered. They wondered whether subtlety or myopia were responsible for "The Optimist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Yorker | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

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