Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slightest idea of the contents of the article until I had received it and described it to him over the telephone. The story is the ex-President's own story in every manner, shape and form. It is amazing to me that anyone could dream that it was otherwise. No "ghost" writer-as those writers who put stories into shape for prominent people are called-could have put into a story the sincerity which Mr. Coolidge embodied in his story. (Signed) RAY LONG SWORN TO BEFORE ME THIS 9th DAY OF APRIL, 1929. (Sealed and Signed) William J. Sperl...
...turned poet. Rebel against the Puritanism of her day (1830-86) she could hardly have made the sacrifice from prudishness. But perhaps it was from gentle reluctance to distress the preacher's wife, and her own family. Or perhaps it was a mystic self-denial that gave her the dream of perfection instead of the disappointing inadequacies of fulfillment. This is the solution implied by many of her poems...
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...homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream was to raze the Woolworth Building...
Most of the bonds went to Andrew Carnegie, who intended to make Mr. Morgan pay well for his dream. The stock was full of water and sold as low as $3 per share in 1904. But back, back, back into the company went the earnings. In fact, Steel's accountants even provided for sinking funds before figuring their earnings. Thus inevitably was the Morgan faith in the U. S. justified and long since has U. S. common sold steadily above par and above its preferred. The only question now is "when will...