Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop-over at San Simeon to chat with William Randolph Hearst) and back to Washington via Pittsburgh. At the week's end he hopped to Manhattan. About once a fortnight he manages to week-end with his wife and as many of his nine children as he can collect-in the winter at Palm Beach, in the summer at Hyannis Port on Cape...
...over a year he did nothing but travel for his health, collect books, give smart little dinners for political bigwigs, entertain friends in his private cocktail bar. Then at last he was ready to step out again. The Presidency of the Municipal Council is a one-year job that attracts little public attention but wields great influence with the National Government. A previous President of the Municipal Council was Socialist Pierre Godin. He and Jean Chiappe had been intimate friends for years. Their friendship did not break up when the scandals of the Stavisky case and the February riots forced...
...readers forget. One is that he and his wife suffered the harshest privations when they first arrived in Manhattan 23 years ago, after a knockabout newspaper career in the Midwest. At that time his problem was to get editors to print his column for nothing, so he might collect an occasional meal or the price of room rent from some restaurant or hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that his wife for years has been his business manager, arranging...
...accounts of his love affairs and daring escapes and thus inspired Conan Doyle, Poe, Hugo, Balzac and Gaboriau, Superintendent Cornish seldom refers to his personal career and accomplishments, writes of plodding, methodical, routine work unlikely to fire any man of letters. Always conscious of the elaborate organization needed to collect the countless items of trivia used in building up a case, Cornish gives himself and other super-sleuths no more credit than plain constables or voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved as of those that were. The work of running down false clues...
Most big corporations own & operate the little switching locomotives that scuttle around within the boundaries of their plants. The railroads merely deliver and collect freight cars at the company gates. That practice eliminates the annoyance of having outside locomotives chugging about the works at odd hours, allows manufacturers to enforce their own rules against fire hazards, minimizes the opportunities for industrial espionage...