Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vicar Elliott wound up his League's pre-Easter push, which has enrolled 6.000 people a week, by speaking to rallies in Folkestone and Reading. In recent months he has packed halls, turned crowds away throughout England. His physical labors for the League are no fun. Mr. Elliott loathes trains, grimly smokes his pipe and speaks to no one while traveling. Insomniac even in his own bed, he sleeps little-save with sleeping powders-in hotels...
Last year in Manhattan a little old man of 77 gave an interview: "The best bank in the world, if you put the right things in it, is the bank of memories. . . . I've had fun...
...oldster was Pliny Fisk and his fun began in 1881 when he graduated from Princeton to the investment banking house of his father, Harvey Fisk, who had made a fortune helping the Union finance the Civil War. Four years later Pliny Fisk became the firm's trader on the floor of the Exchange, was there christened by his bearded fellow-members the"apple-cheeked boy of Wall Street." But Broker Fisk soon cut a man-size figure. In a few minutes one afternoon he sold $2,000,000 worth of securities to Hetty Green-after the doorman had tried...
...National Academy of Design, where he went for two-and-a-half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week...
...surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...