Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...linked in a German financing deal. From the eavesdropping amateur there came to Brown Bros, a transcript of the talk. Brown Bros, did not like the National City talk. Puzzled, Brown Bros, asked explanations. National City, astonished, gave them. Still friends, still associates, the two banks resolved upon more cautious, coded communications...
...influential, because their reports reach by far the greatest number of people-are what might be called the Straight Reporters, the correspondents of the big news services. This year the Associated Press keeps two men and a woman, the United Press one man, near each Nominee continually. Writing their cautious, colorless reports, these writers are either unsung heroes or stenographic automata...
Silhouette. Let the cautious woman apply the following test. Dressed in a frock of an outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...
...automobiles, investments, shaving soaps. But they were not used to elaborate, detailed advertisements of champagne. As everyone knows, bootleg champagne in the U. S, market is priced at $10-$15 a quart. These beguiling advertisements suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with...
...citizen from the telephone book, then start an account in her name at a local bank, using the good check as a first deposit. This done, she could go shopping. For each article she buys, she gives a check, double the purchase price, asking for the balance in cash. Cautious department stores do not accept checks without investigation. Credit men telephone the bank, discover Miss T- has a $300 balance, apologize profusely and urge her to open a charge account. Graciously, she consents, moves on to another store to repeat the performance. But at 2:30 o'clock...