Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give me a job?" As down-Easters will, Caretaker Grant answered in few words, nodded, handed the young man a shovel. "Dig there," he said. The young man dug. He planted sod. He transplanted bushes. For three days he worked diligently...
Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...
...hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws of the market-place...
...there came to the Knox store a mother with her 12 year old son, asked Hatter Knox to give her Robert...
...greatest difference between Investment News and the more conservative financial papers is in the Macfadden publication's willingness to give specific tips on specified stocks. Thus in one day's issue, there was definite bull advice on International Business Machines (headed for the 200 mark), on General Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels...