Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculators in all cases insist that they are needed to maintain an active market, necessary in stocks for investors and in commodities for merchants who must hedge their purchases of raw materials. Speculator Cutten, well aware that further regulation threatens the wheat pit, which "is for me as the deck of his ship to a sailor," insisted: "Speculation is wrong when it is done with other people's money, but who other than the speculators are going to assume the necessary risks of commerce which cannot and should not be borne entirely by the merchants? Do not tell yourselves...
...only got a new deal and a new dealer but a practically new deck of cards. It is, however, the same game. The players change but the game...
...book touches on some of them, but by no means all. One day he and a man named Duff teamed to get a ship news shot of the elder Morgan, notoriously hostile to cameramen. Duff hid behind a ventilator. Jack Price, as decoy, waited until Banker Morgan, pacing the deck, came alongside the ventilator. Then he leaped into Morgan's path, focussing his camera. Irate Banker Morgan brandished his cane, while Confederate Duff, unseen, sniped a perfect shot, later shared with Price...
...better-known Savoy Operas, the Civic Light Opera Company has learned to be lusty in choruses, whimsical in patter-songs, and sentimental in arias. They can shake the deck of the good ship "Pinafore," snapping their fingers at a foeman's taunts, along with their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Or, transformed into Pirates, they can sally forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police...
...builders of Manhattan's newest, completed skyscraper, Cities Service's 67-story Sixty Wall Tower, installed double-deck elevators which seem to satisfy the tenantry. If ordinary single elevators had been used, the economical height of that building would not have been more than 48 stories...