Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Miss Hall's publishers-the old and distinguished firm of Jonathan Cape, Ltd.-appealed against suppression of The Well of Loneliness, before the Attorney General of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Inskip. National interest focused on the appeal because Miss Hall's book had received the indorsement of a petition to the Attorney General signed by John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, John Middleton Murray, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett...
Acknowledge firm support of the Kellogg Peace Pact and of all future measures tending to reduce armaments without suggesting a "renunciation of war"; because, as someone shrewdly pointed out, there would remain "the possibility of a defensive...
...Wyckoff made his debut in the district, getting a job as messenger for a firm of brokers. Clever lad, apt student, he was in due course a broker on his own, functioning in a number of partnerships, promoting innumerable enterprises, among them the Emerson Phonograph Co. By 1907 when he started to publish the Ticker Magazine he had acquired a reputation for smartness and a considerable fortune...
...idly read the caption to see whether this was a belated poster from some Y. M. C. A. drive during the recent war, or an invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant to the Sunday supplement's illustrations of the minimum requirements to clothe the female form devine...The impression given by the work was a mistaken one, or almost that. The picture was not a poster...
Shawls were soon supplanted by army blankets-lucrative civil war contracts Fisk secured for his Boston firm. And before long he was buying cotton at 12? a pound in the South, selling it at $2 in the North. Some days he bought $800,000 worth, only to lose it (well insured) on the Mason Dixon line. One day, pursued by a Rebel patrol, he tossed them his wallet stuffed with $300,000, and made off with his more precious life...