Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money sharps were not greatly surprised. Money rates have been climbing steadily all spring. Call money now brings
...Epsom Downs the Derby starts at the bottom of what plainsmen would call a hill. With their necks low and their haunches spread the horses climb for half a mile while the crowd at the top of the hill ducks under the fence (it is never policed) and stands in the track watching them struggle up wearily and slowly. When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front...
...Gold Dust people have well known, plus the additional fact that John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his associates were inclined to sell their American Linseed stock. There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel. The talk was brief-a new corporation, Gold Dust American Corp., would be formed and for its stock the Rockefellers would exchange their American Linseed preferred stock. Minority preferred holders and the commonholders would have opportunity to trade their shares for the new company...
Four hundred and seventy pages of text, 33 of table of contents, and five of foreword to American readers, comprise what G. B. S. is pleased to call his last will and testament to posterity. Such a document is often a summary of previous implications: and here are the echoes of many a famous "preface" concerning religion, eugenics, education, professional morality, economics-in short, society. But the echoes are measured and stressed in a grand symphony of discord for which the resolving chord is equality of income. The bizarre title of the composition is calculated to attract male attention...
...Call it searing the conscience, call it dimming the moral sight, call it what you will, the process, in greater or less degree, is not confined to fiction. Men have started in life with good intentions and ended reprobates. When the catastrophy comes in such cases. When, for example; an embezzlement is discovered, a long series of gradually increasing malversations appear, beginning with a self-pretence of borrowing money to be replaced, growing by degrees more reckless and ending in desperation. All along there is a series also of excuses causing the edge of the conscience to become gradually dulled...