Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parisians and their police were baffled last week by an offense little short of criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person...
Achilles in this canto of the railroad epic is played by Arthur Curtiss James of the Western Pacific. Bearded, eye-glassed, urbane, he is known for different things to different people. To Manhattan socialites he is the host of a huge granite mansion on Park Avenue at 69th Street. To...
Sages. Many were the self-proclaimed sages who declared they had predicted the break. But outstanding Wise Man was Roger W. Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to...
A momentary hero during the break was John Davison Rockefeller, who said he and his son had been buying stocks. When prices continued to go down so did Rockefeller's glory. But when last week Standard Oil of New Jersey was selling at 50ľ, the market was electrified by an...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty...