Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people and several others comprise an intensely interesting gallery of figures...
...yanked the mattress onto the floor and carried the sheets and blankets into his own room. Then he returned to put the mattress back on the bed. He was surprised on lifting it to find his roommate left on the floor, still asleep...
...Help, help," yelled Bernard D. Shea '41 as he danced around his room on the fifth floor of Thayer yesterday, trying desperately to shake off a tenacious squirrel which held his index finger firmly in its teeth...
...effectively against manipulative and deceptive practices." Hardly was this news on the streets when-giving a convenient plausibility to its assertion- SEC brought formal charges of manipulation in the stock of Auburn Automobile Co. against two partners of the important brokerage house of E. F. Hutton & Co. and a floor trader on the New York stock exchange. Most startling of all-one of the cited partners was Gerald M. Loeb. long known (in spite of his bald head) as one of Wall Street's "fair-haired boys...
...whereby he saved himself and certain good friends from prosecution for manipulating Checker Cab. 1935 E. F. Hutton & Co. partners played no part in the Checker Cab trading. Simultaneously, however, Gerald Loeb and Gordon Crary did considerable trading of Auburn for clients. According to SEC, the pair, through Floor Trader H. Terry Morrison, effected enough artful Auburn deals to raise the price from $38 on Dec. 24, to $54.25 on March 5, 1936. SEC claims that this was done by such oldtime pool methods as buying heavily at the close, issuing extravagant statements, using discretionary accounts to create an artificial...