Word: geste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...
...nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry...
Fortune of War. As it had often done before, war had forced the making of this pattern for peace. And by the fortune of war it is U.S. flyers who have had the big gest part in creating that pattern...
...From Cleveland came word of the big gest individual bond buyer of World War II: a ruddy, superquiet stock speculator named Harry William Hosford, who had cleaned up in both the bull market of the early '20s and the bear market of the early '30s. Once a cabin boy on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Hosford now unostentatiously bought in one whack $21,-000,000 worth of bonds. (Later he disclosed he had bought $11,000,000 in bonds last fall.) Cleveland newspapers had never before printed Harry Hosford's picture, had not mentioned his name...
...work in America was "The Miracla," sponsored by Morris Gest. This play, aside from its dramatic significance, was famed for Reinhardt's reproduction of an actual cathedral on the stage...