Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm, visiting her this summer to confer about her since-published Lark Ascending, showed her a copy of TIME, whereupon she subscribed, and we rarely receive a letter from her in which she does not make some reference to her latest copy...
Success Story (By John Howard Lawson; Group Theatre, producer). Sol Ginsberg had an insatiable thirst for success. When he first went to work for the advertising firm, he knew what he wanted. After he had ousted his gentile boss, spurned the boss's secretary who loved him and married the boss's mistress, he was sated, did not know what to do with himself next. The secretary settles that for him by shooting him dead...
...Pulp (Cont'd). Newsprint, which dropped from $53 to $47.50 a ton fortnight ago when Price Bros, suddenly slashed its prices (TIME, Sept. 26), was hammered still lower last week. The price cut was no proud gesture but a desperate attempt to get business and cash. Last week the firm announced that its difficulties were so great that it will pass into the hands of its bondholders unless aid is forthcoming. Common and preferred stockholders may be called upon to assist. A committee was formed to protect preferred stockholders. One of its members is a representative of Lord Beaverbrook...
Sherrill had risen from a poor Midwestern boyhood to a partnership in a big old Manhattan brokerage firm, a house, wife & children in Yonkers, a fat income, fat prospects. On the verge of middle age he still had his health and good looks. But he had fallen in love with Sylvia March Brownlow Wickliffe, pet-named June. A luscious copper-brunette, she fired Sherrill's blood, let him buy her presents, but for a long time would not give him what he wanted. When she became his mistress, he soon found her a hard one. Business troubles, his wife...
...trace of weariness on Author Revere's part. (He, too, lived a double life-with his book-while writing and rewriting it secretly at his New Jersey home, in spare moments over four years, giving up to his muse even golf at his beloved Baltusrol.) So heavily firm is his hand upon his characters that it is doubtful if critics who call his work crude will ruffle Author Revere's equanimity...