Word: good
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senora Sarafina Gomez, comely wife of Mayor Miguel Mariana Gomez of Havana, visiting Manhattan with her husband, said of her town: "We have more good American tourists than bad ones...
...British investors a prime indication of safety is the presence of "good names" in a company. Last week a vast English company which, with its affiliates, represents a capitalization of nearly $500,000,000 and has assets scattered throughout the world, passed dividends upon both the preference and common stocks. This alone, was a shock to London businessmen. But even more shocking were whispers of Scandal about the best of the company's "good names...
...reach when his sailing ship is dashed by storm against the knees of Greenland's icy mountains? Artist Rockwell Kent, thus shipwrecked last summer (TIME. July 29), told last week what he had reached for: his wife's picture, his father's silver flute, his own good bowie knife. Upon what does the marooned artist then paint the epic of his wanderings? Artist Kent told that too: upon bedsheets furnished by great hearted Greenland Danes...
...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...
...count. Here is another one to confuse his reckoning and to delight Wallace fans, detective story addicts. The Crimson Circle, a highly efficient criminal organization, piles murder on mysterious murder until all London is terrorized. Scotland Yard, as usual, gets it in the neck, but this time gives as good as it gets. Author Wallace strews his text with clues, but he is also an adept with red herrings. When the villain is finally unmasked, there is more than one gasp in the audience...