Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until the night of the shooting there were very few people who thought that Stanford White was overfond of gaieties. His friends debated, instead, whether Stanford White or Charles F. McKim was the ablest member of the famous firm of McKim, Mead & White. Stanford White was a man widely respected, for his wit and position as much as for his unusual talents: he was a member of the best clubs in Manhattan, the husband of a charming woman. If you wanted a house built, and had money, you went to Stanford White...
...more original than Architect McKim's. The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical. But everyone agreed that Charles McKim was exactly the man the firm needed to balance the exciting gifts of Stanford White. No one, even with an unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones, his use, for contrast, of tapestries...
...through with it. In handling a Long Island jewel theft case, they flop from the distinguished station of international crime experts to the ignoble confinement of the local gaol. The cause of their downfall: softheartedness and general confusion on the part of both partners regarding the policy of the firm as a unit. Ludwig Satz, notable Jewish actor, assumes the role of Potash, once played by Barney Bernard. His is an original, shrewd Abe. As the overlording Perlmutter, Robert Leonard becomes exasperated beautifully. Of course, the audience is amused and Abe and Mawruss are released from gaol, so that they...
...This should have no effect upon the major portion of the bondholders of the Miller firm. They have their bonds, the property is there and they should be perfectly secured."-Vice President C. C. Moore, American Bond & Mortgage...
...limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room to mention strenuous game hunts, native customs and practical jokes quite as plentifully as epochal discoveries and scientific...