Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis' own idea about the sex life of the Harvard undergraduate is that too often he sets out in quest of amorous adventures according "to some preconceived hard-and-fast theory, too frequently grounded on the exaggerations and distortions of other undergraduates boasting in bull sessions...
...Sarles Durstine had already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s...
...handed over in their chains to the victorious Nationalists. . . . Why are they there? They are being held as ransom. With their lives they will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they negotiated surrender. . . . One might compare their lot to that of a bull, worn out by picadors, helplessly waiting for the matador to enter with a fanfare of trumpets to give it the coup de grâce. This war, which has been incredibly cruel on all sides since its commencement two-and-a-half years ago, seems likely...
...Manhattan. He lived for a time in Oyster Bay, where he got to know the late Theodore Roosevelt. His first recording was of Theodore Roosevelt's voice, greeting Vincent's Boy Progressives League on March 4, 1913, while Woodrow Wilson was being inaugurated President after outrunning Bull Mooser Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft. Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard...
...oracle of the Dow Theory, which has more adherents than any other market-forecasting system. In his March 25 letter to clients, Robert Rhea declared that joint penetration of their previous lows by the industrial and railroad averages would mean that the primary market trend had changed from bull to bear, even though the bull market which began last spring has not enjoyed either normal length or the usual hectic "third phase." Robert Rhea unhappily admitted his dilemma and critics of the Dow Theory settled down to a watchful waiting...