Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dubious advantage of rest instead of an easy match before they met Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin in the second round. The weather, still soggy, gave them a much less dubious advantage when the match began because Bell has trouble standing up even when the footing is dry and firm. After winning without difficulty, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5, Crawford & McGrath came up against the newly organized team of sly George Lott and towering Lester Stoefen. Stoefen & Lott concentrated their attack on 17-year-old McGrath's two-handed backhand. He missed 14 out of 17 chances...
...year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep an eye on him? In the Transcript office Mr. Fletcher is famed for his eyeshades-envelopes stuck between his temples and the bows of his spectacles. He is a stubble-bearded, genteel, firm believer in oldtime Christianity and Prohibition. He is a baseball addict, fond of plucking batting averages from his capacious memory and correcting the errors of sportswriters. Last week "Churchman" Fletcher announced his retirement and the Transcript gave its readers a new and strikingly different religious editor. Dr. Albert Charles Dieffenbach...
...next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life to making the mere mention of Goldman, Sachs a sure-fire gag from Broadway to Hollywood.* But the more fun Eddie Cantor had with Goldman. Sachs the madder he got. Finally last year he sued all the partners of the sponsoring firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. for a cool $100,000,000. Other stockholders joined him in the suit, and Wall Street japesters used to annoy Goldman, Sachs telephone operators with requests for "the litigation department." To the dignified partners the vision of Funnyman Cantor on the witness stand became a haunting...
...themselves with a 1933 version of an ancient game of hazing new members-by a swindle in distillery shares. To Leland H. Ross Jr., new floor broker for Marshall, Campbell & Co., they gave an order to buy 5,000 shares of OWS (Owens Distillery). Guilelessly ignorant that no such firm existed, he asked directions to the post where it was traded, rushed to execute his order. On the quotation board the "last sale" of OWS was duly recorded at 14. New Broker Ross asked the OWS "specialist" to quote it. "14-15" (14 offer, 15 bid), said the broker. "Take...
...London is full of boats, secondhand Buicks, and bouncing college girls. The Sound is the playground of sybarities. Stretching off to Long Island, the shoreline follows the water as a wet garment clings to the firm sweet limbs of a girl and the little line of foam, milky in the moon, decks her with lace...