Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan, and John Sherwin, Chairman of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, onetime managers of the company and the butt of stockholders' criticism, were elected directors...
...readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear gas, riot guns, and perhaps even machine guns. Certainly innocent by-standers would have suffered and private property...
Because the Chicago Board of Trade, if its officials had been conscientiously alert, might have prevented the Armour Grain Co. frauds (TIME, April 25 et ante), the Board has been the butt of severe criticism. Last week the situation...
...childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing the case of 14-year-old Uldine Utley, whose evangelical struggles had lately been endorsed by such stalwarts of the church...
...they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted...