Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deliberately robbing the Russian market of things that Russians want to buy, in order to sell those things abroad and reap foreign capital. Thus correspondents humorously described a recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah of Persia, on a recent visit to Moscow. It was thought politic to start a paper chain of commerce between Moscow and Teheran, then and there-even at the cost of robbing the Russian paper market...
...want to reiterate that Mr. Dreiser's book as a whole and mine as a whole have numerous important differences. We do not arrive at the same conclusions regarding the Soviet experiment. . . . What strikes me as peculiar in the whole affair is that the passages in question deal with precisely those things which I should have thought a novelist would wish to describe in his own words...
...Manhattan's two organized stock & bond marts are the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Curb Exchange. Last week President Peter Grimm of the Real Estate Board announced plans for a third securities exchange. With temporary headquarters at No. 12 East 41st street, Manhattan, it will deal in real estate, stocks and bonds...
...Director Frank Tuttle got together on a story, or rather that story about the Parisian who is so tired of women that he is expressing his weariness in an epigrammatic speech when-what do you think?-a beautiful pair of legs goes by. The pursuit, tailored with a good deal of deft comic detail, leads in and out of bedrooms and round and round a jealous husband until, at Kathryn Carver's request, a waiter removes a pot of flowers to expose, on the other side of the table, the lovelorn face of Mr. Menjou. At this point...
...Harvard professor, commenting upon Durant's "Story of Philosophy" suggested somewhat patronizingly that Durant had brought philosophy to Main Street but had not succeeded in bringing Main Street to Philosophy. Dewey, in looking on this field has combined both with a great deal of grace. The students of Philosophy A will quite probably support the opinion that to bring Philosophy to Main Street is not entirely to be regretted. And in doing so Dewey has not soiled the purity of intellectual emotion,--merely strained off the soporific wanderings of contemporary philosophy to bring to light certain basic principles common...