Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crypt of St. Peter's, a tomb lay covered with flowers. Heavy candles diffused their ethereal light, revealing black-draped and kneeling figures, bent in devout prayer. A slight murmur of subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt...
Nevertheless, by its firm endorsement of LaFollette, by its equally firm repudiation of Davis and Bryan as well as of Coolidge and Dawes, it has joined one political party more forcefully and more fully than it has ever 'done in the past. This stand presages the retirement from the foreground of Samuel Gompers, who for years has fought to keep the Federation out of politics. Formally, the Federation maintains its usual stand. Formally, Samuel Gompers retains his leadership. Actually...
...just man, tenacious of his purpose, is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow-citizens bidding what is wrong nor by the face of a threatening tyrant nor by the uncontrollable storms of the sea nor by the mighty hand of thundering Jove. If the vault of Heaven should break and crash upon him, he would stand amid its ruins undismayed...
Wilhelm: "My eldest son, Friedrich, took his eldest son, Wilhelm, to Hamburg, personally inducted him into a clerical situation with an old importing and exporting firm- his first employment. Newspapers headlined: 'KAISER'S GRANDSON CLERK...
...only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business liquidation seemed about completed, although new dark and new bright spots continued to appear in the business outlook. Easy money continued, with small prospect that crop-moving or foreign loans would soon firm up existing low interest rates. Commodity prices, leaving out such obviously exceptional cases as staple grains, seemed to be fully firming up -but whether as a result of the long-predicted "gold inflation" or not cannot yet be determined. Industrially, it is a sluggish Summer. Agriculturally, it has been surprisingly...