Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an old and conservative institution has altered its whole way of doing business in an effort to put an anchor or two to windward in a sea of liability. Many a bank has refused to sell bonds ex cept over the counter in its own office, refused to give any information about them by mail. Blyth & Co.. in selling 147,500 shares of Kingsbury Breweries Co.; Manitowoc, Wis., issued a prospectus giving the com pany's earnings for May as $107,719 but added: "It should be recognized that the present margin of profit . . . is unusually large...
...challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have returned him again and again as Leader. Walking over to Mr. Churchill, he put a big paw on his shoulder, waited until cheers and counter cheers had subsided, and then made with emphasis his big, defensive utterance of the day. "I did not make up my mind about India three years ago!" said Honest Stanley. "I said and I repeat that I took three years considering...
...president in charge of advertising (known to all advertising men as a past president of the Association of National Advertisers), and Third Son William M. Bristol Jr. as secretary. ¶Dr. Porter's Drug Store in Greensboro, N. C. gave the world two famous things. Behind its prescription counter labored a druggist named Lunsford Richardson, William Sidney Porter (nephew of Dr. Porter ) was one of his clerks. Clerk Porter soon went forth into the world and produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being...
Author Romains' method is reminiscent of John Dos Passos' (The 42nd, Parallel; 1919) and Aldous Huxley's (Point Counter Point), but he refuses to admit that they have influenced him: "I salute these experiments; I admire them on occasion. . . . But I salute them as younger comrades, and with some sense of priority." Though he has been actually working on Men of Good Will for only twelve years, he has been preparing for it since 1905. Of the 65-odd characters introduced in this first volume, few are related, many do not even meet. As each chapter carries...
...250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon gathered that whenever Propagandist Frank said "Turks'" he meant Chancellor Dollfuss and the Jews, knew that by "one country and one people" he meant a Germany-Austria combine. Next day Austrians were primed with a counter-motto, "Austria forever," as the descendant and namesake of the man who delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, led the Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly...