Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great steelmaster, confronted with bad times, had made that statement 30 or even 15 years ago, his colleagues would have thought he had caught religion or become drunk. His employees would not have believed him. Yet when Charles Michael Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew "Charley" Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect...
...done everything and everybody; but when he was in a tight place was apt to confess himself a miserable and not quite bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where he had sowed. When he was skipper for Trader Knoff, Edevart...
...sister team that is mostly sister but which as a unit is at all times thoroughly diverting. And although their names are not printed on the programs in black-faced type there are Eddie Foy Jr., and Tom Howard, the former one of the few that can raise a drunk scene to high art, and the latter one who makes no pretensions as to art but who can get far more whole-hearted laughs than a score of ordinary musical comedy wise-crackers Mr Ziegfeld has given his faithful public nothing to complain of as far as the personal...
...Author. Michael Ossorgin, 52, Russian intellectual and member of the nobility, was banished by the Tsar for Liberalism, by the Bolsheviks for the same reason. Since 1922 he has lived in Paris. Says he: "Above all else I value freedom, but I have drunk deep of prison life. I dislike newspapers, yet I have been a journalist for 30 years...
...paper where you called the annual convention of the American Legion in Boston a "Brawl". I can't imagine any man who attends Harvard sponsoring or writing such an editorial. I have attended American Legion conventions and of course all of them are not orderly and some may get drunk. But as to your term "Brawl...