Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inclined may link this account of genesis with many stories of how other pieces of music were composed. There is, for instance, the Fuga del Gatto of Scarlatti. One day the composer heard a strange series of piano notes. His cat had scampered across the keyboard. The notes were firm in his memory, and he used them as the melody, the theme for a highly learned and intricate composition, a fugue...
Said General Wrangel: " I have just visited my army units in the territories of Serbia, and I am glad to state that in spite of all privations their spirit is firm. I was questioned everywhere as to whether it was true that a new rally would take place around our former Commander-in-Chief, the Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolaievich. Knowing how popular is his name, I would be glad to lead the army after...
...question is one of utilitarian-ethics-of doing right because it pays." So says The Colombian Review, referring to the not infrequent dishonesty of representatives of U. S. firms in Colombia and other Latin American countries. The animadversion is principally upon the misrepresentations in which United States representatives are said to indulge. The main points: samples shown, different goods delivered; promises given to send goods of a better quality, bad goods sent; goods sold which the firm does not handle, goods " practically the same " or " just as good " sent; goods not sent in parcels of the correct size; no attention...
...cavalry officer in the Army of the Potomac, he recovered only as it closed. He then tried an adventure in raising cotton in the South, followed by another in oil wells in the West, both unfortunate, and it was not until after these failures that he entered the firm where he laid the solid foundation for the fortune and public philanthropy that made him the first citizen of his city. William James in youth essayed to be an artist, then went through the Medical School, but never practiced medicine or made any notable success in medical science...
...check against the extension of bucketing has been provided by the New York Stock Exchange in refusing to give one of it's stock tickers to any firm not of the right character. Without a stock ticker the bucketeer finds it all but impossible to do business. In this work the Stock Exchange has made few mistakes; very few of the bucketshops which have failed in recent years had a New York Stock Exchange ticker. The latter instrument must not, however, be confused with the very similar looking ticker machine of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, so many of whose...