Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college. It is easy to understand why the gift was made. Though Mr. Harkness is a director of eight railroads, he has long had a penchant for the Southern Pacific. Of each and every year he spends a part inspecting the road. Many of the employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes of the gift are obvious, but its effects...
...Chicago, retiring president of the A. B. A. Banker Hazelwood has many friends among bankers, is said to keep track of their careers as closely as changes in banking trends. Known as an orator and wise counselor, Mr. Hazelwood recently warned: "Let the banker who is afraid to face facts remember that his competitor is going to face them and that progress will go on, with him or over him. A mind that is not receptive to new viewpoints is apt to be closed to human phases of business...
...General John Joseph Pershing, visiting Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch on his Scotland estate, had gone grouse shooting. This in itself was not news; generals are expected to like to pull triggers now and then. The news was that General Pershing had been so careless as to hit in the face Supreme Court Justice Richard Paul Lydon instead of a grouse...
Changing courts, Kozeluh rubbed his face with a towel and took a bit of lemon. As he walked back to the baseline after a point he often shook his head-the only gesture left in his gay repertory. Richards ran the score to 5-3, to advantage in the match game, lost the point and then stepping back for a slam, got the ball on the wood of his racket and netted it. Kozeluh won the game and Richards, on his next serve, double-faulted twice for the first time that day-too tired to make any resistance...
...disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...