Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations of the world still want to dance to martial airs but don't want to pay the fiddler; must they needs have one more lesson--another Great War? From this Humanity would surely learn, but the price to the survivors would be dear...
...cherish the memory of our dear associates who wrought gloriously in their time of service and have passed on with unclouded records. We who remain are to carry on ... with ... an increasing de sire to be of the greatest service to man kind." Thus, in Cleveland last week, spoke John D. Rockefeller to industrialists celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Standard Oil. It was not Mr. Rockefeller in person. He was hiding his 90-year-old body away from the winter at Ormond Beach, Fla. To Cleveland he had sent his likeness in a talking cinema, the first...
Early Standard Oil. Everyone of Mr. Rockefeller's "dear associates" is dead. The beginnings of Standard Oil were in 1862 when Mr. Rockefeller and Maurice B. Clark, Cleveland commission merchants, opened a refinery as a sideline. With them was Samuel Andrews, the technical member of the combination and, later, William Rockefeller, John's younger brother. In 1865 Mr. Rockefeller bought out Mr. Clark (for $72,500). Needing capital for expansion, Mr. Rockefeller went to Henry Morrison Flagler, who, from supplying grain to a distillery owned by Stephen V. Harkness, had married a Harkness niece and thus become associated with Cleveland...
...sort of man whose most serious follies must inevitably be ingenuous and disarming. The dialog is sedately witty rather than wisecracking - remarking how, on the basis of deportment, it is difficult nowadays to tell the sexes apart, Miss George observes : "Why, just today I received a letter addressed, 'Dear Sir or Madame...
...Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby is not a name like Rosie Rosenberg. His father was private secretary to the late great Victoria, Queen and Empress, who made "dear little Arthur" her pageboy. From knee breeches and gold lace Mr. Ponsonby grew up to be a Liberal politician, but his conscientious objection to the World War caused him to be ostracised by all his friends and he was forced into the Labor Party. Last week, as one of the staunchest intimates of the Prime Minister, Mr. Ponsonby, M. P., was created Baron...