Word: checkbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...holding an umbrella. At length the President emerged from his cogitation: "What can I do for you?" "Have you ever considered the English house system here at Harvard?" asked the unobtrusive man. "Yes . . . too expensive." "How much?" "Oh, about three million dollars to begin it." The visitor fished a checkbook out of his pocket, wrote out a check, passed it to President Lowell. The President looked in bewilderment at the signature: "Edward S. Harkness." Harkness? Harkness? "Why, thank you. . . . Ah, could you lunch with me?" he finally asked. "I'm very sorry, but my wife is shopping in Boston...
...opened up his checkbook...
Scarcely had Mrs. Rumsey closed her checkbook and departed, when the S. S. Aquitania nosed up to its pier and debarked mother-in-law Mrs. L. D. Rumsey with a $200 traveling case belonging to Daughter-in-Law Rumsey, which she failed to declare. The case was seized. Back went Daughter-in-Law Rumsey to pay more penalties...
...world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could...
...joint thought and decision. It is thought that O. P. usually takes the lead, but if O. P. may speak for M. J. so may M. J. speak for O. P. With two minds made up, they are difficult to swerve. It is gossiped that even their personal checkbook is a joint affair, either signature being valid...