Word: comstocking
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...thing, said Comstock, "learn something about the business you apply to for a job. Know what job to ask for. Don't tell an employer you'll 'do anything' . . . Don't brag and don't bluff. Any successful businessman can spot bragging or bluffing easily. He's been doing it himself all his life...
...Comstock Notestein, Radcliffe President emeritus, will speak at the reception, and a full-length portrait of Dean Cronkhite will be presented to the College, William Abbott Cheever was the artist...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...
...Club's annual show, "A Bride for the Unicorn" was nearly cancelled when then President Ada Comstock of Radcliffe refused to permit 'Cliffe undergraduates to act in the play because the parts "were unsuitable for young women to play...
Ambitious men moved in, capable of trying to dominate the entire Comstock. One was a cold little bank manager named Sharon. One of his exploits was the "Hale & Norcross corner" in 1868, by which he got control of an important mine. When production declined and stock shares fell soon afterward, Sharon resorted to a common technique: he sold most of his stock to avoid paying stock assessments, knowing that he could buy it back cheap when new ore was uncovered. At this point Mackay and his partner Jim Fair, as a gamble, began their own raid on Hale & Norcross...