Word: goldmans
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Bastard Twins. Asked about the use of host as a transitive verb, as when Johnny Carson "hosts" the Tonight Show, Princeton Historian Eric F. Goldman wrote: "This is TVese and public-relationese, hardly an improvement over the English language." On the use of like as a conjunction, like in the Winston cigarette syndrome, Writer John Kiernan commented: "Such things as these persuade me that the death penalty should be retained." Isaac Asimov, the lucid science writer, also denounced finalize as "nothing more than bureaucratic illiteracy-the last resort of the communicatively untalented...
...20th book, and it is on bestseller lists -a place where hard-cover mysteries are not often found. In the past few years, critical opinion has been massing behind Macdonald to push him past Dashiell Hammett and especially Raymond Chandler, whose style and settings have clearly influenced him. William Goldman calls Macdonald's mysteries "the finest ever written by an American." Other critics number him among the important novelists of our time, full of profound insights on the great themes of time and love and death...
...best way that associates could find to explain his success was to note that he had an extraordinary ability to make people like and trust him. So they sought his advice, followed his call to Washington and, when they had new securities to market, brought them to him at Goldman, Sachs & Co., the investment banking house in which Weinberg was senior partner...
...formal education ended with graduation from P.S. 13 in Brooklyn. The short, bespectacled Jewish boy began his career during the Panic of 1907 by going to a Wall Street skyscraper, knocking on the door of every office and asking if the company needed help. When he got to the Goldman, Sachs office, he was taken on as a porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity value it gave him on Wall Street. Until his death, he kept...
When the directors stopped laughing, Goldman, Sachs got the underwriting...