Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hypochondriac Proust used to wear a long nightgown, sweaters, mufflers, stockings, gloves, a nightcap. He lived on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, in a cork-lined attic room. His curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author...
...found when the menagerie truck in which he, a $2,500 show lion, had been riding was wrecked in a road smash. While the wreck was being untangled, Wallace had trotted down the road and lain down, blinking at the Dorset sun, rolling now and then in the Dorset dust. When his keeper approached, over a hedge had leaped Wallace and brought up in puzzlement before Nelly's calf...
...indirectly included in the merger because Royal Baking Powder has large holdings of its stocks. The holding company which will control Fleischmann and Royal is expected to purchase Chase & Sanborn control. Many another food company was mentioned as likely to join the Fleischmann-Royal combination, especially Campbell Soup, Gold Dust, Postum Co., Inc., Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp. Securities of the three companies already merged had last week a market value of about...
...royalists); after a royal hunt in which he stabs the stag and thrills all the ladies, Molinoff is discovered in his cook capacity by Françoise's family. A fatalist giving a dark, hollow laugh at his fate, Molinoff trundles off down the road, his back dwindling in the dust. null who sets off in hot pursuit on her bicycle, is downed by the wind, scrapes her pretty nose...
...merger was to be Fleischmann Co., of which the Morgan company purchased a large minority interest (400,000 to 500,000 shares) in 1926. Inspiration for working out the merger was provided by the unique Fleischmann daily delivery system. Constituents in the merged company were rumored as Postum, Gold Dust, Corn Products, Campbell Soup, Heinz, Royal Baking Powder, Procter & Gamble, and many another. The rumors met with emphatic denials from the companies mentioned; meanwhile Fleischmann and other food stocks climbed with a rapidity that showed considerable Wall Street faith in the merger story...