Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one day a week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...
Tiffany knew not what it had wrought. Its "entire stock" was one presentation putter, ordered by the partners of Parker & Co., a Manhattan aviation-insurance firm, to celebrate Managing Partner R. Leslie Cizek's 30th anniversary with the company. No sooner did the ad appear than Wall Streeters started burning up the phone clamoring for their very own gold putters. With a sigh, Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving announced that the store had ordered more of the $1,475 clubs for the men who want everything. And that it also had a less expensive model in base metals, with...
...wife: "Nearer, my God, to thee." It was Sept. 14, 1901; McKinley was leaving a violent century that he could not have understood, and that could not be very kind to him in retrospect. At the time, his mourners did not recall his failures but remembered his "firm, unquestioning faith; his kindly, frock-coated dignity; his accessibility and dedication to the people: the federal simplicity that would not be seen again in Washington." A popular ballad put it this...
...become the case with many of the world's diplomatic contenders) seem more interested in public relations than specific progress. The issues in the strike have involved wage increases and work rules; the second crystallized union support behind its leadership when economic demands alone seemed insufficient to hold a firm front...
...Yale, he was stricken by the blue eyes and golden hair of pretty Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter of New York's wealthy Republican Senator (1915-27) James Wadsworth, granddaughter of Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay, great-granddaughter of General James Samuel Wadsworth, whose First Division held heroically firm on Gulp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg (where Symington's grandfather, William Stuart Symington I, fought on the Confederate side as a youthful captain...