Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...
...Sept. 28, 1943 Marshall Field III will be 50. When that day comes the handsome, affable grandson of Chicago's greatest merchant will inherit the bulk of the $140,000,000 fortune his grandfather founded in drygoods and grounded in real estate. But Marshall Field III will not have to wait nine years to become a millionaire because he was 40 times a millionaire when he was a schoolboy. Since then bright, popular, progressive Marshall III has done many things of which frosty old Grandfather Field, who stuck to store-keeping and detested sidelines, would not have approved...
...could get cities and states to put up 55% of the cost of public works he could get his costs down to $959-but most cities and states are too hard pressed to leap at the chance. The President said nothing, but Washington was certain that the bulk of the $4,000,000,000 was going eventually to drop into the lap of Harry Hopkins. He alone needs little stone or steel, can put a white collar man on the payroll at a cost of 20? (for pencil and paper), a laborer at a cost of $1 (for a rake...
...creative stages in the development of men like Griffith and Chaplin. Yet the films which these and other men made have had an immeasurably great influence on the life and thought of the present generation. . . . The 'primitives' among the movies are only 40 years old. Yet the bulk of all films that are important historically or esthetically, whether foreign or domestic, old or new, are invisible under existing conditions...
...Pont, go $200,000 a year, his Florida estate, "Epping Forest," his art collection, his yachts. To his four children and a brother-in-law executor, 5,000 shares each in his personal holding company, Almours Securities Inc. To other relations and retainers, securities and annuities. Income from the bulk of the estate, plus $1,000,000 cash and "Nemours," his famed Wilmington estate, with its 1,600 acres and fine mansion, goes to establish a foundation to house and care for crippled children or aged poor, preferably of Delaware...