Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isolationists snorted at the proposal that good money be sent abroad after bad. But the President explained that the borrowers were to be good South American neighbors, not wicked European defaulters. The money would all be spent in or for the U. S., opening and reconstructing export markets. Moreover, Jesse Jones would be the watchdog on duty...
...Japanese good will for the U. S. rose when...
...Territory seized by Mussolini on Good Friday...
...over in his plump hands, says: "Tick [thick], 18?." If it is thin, he says: "Tin, 8?." Some sixth sense supplies him with his shrewd literary judgments. Of one unfortunate author he is supposed to have said: "Dat guy? Dat guy? He couldn't even write a good remainder...
Well-liked by publishers, Max Salop is regarded as one of the best credit risks in the trade. To one of them he once sent a check made out for "one tusan dollars.'' The check was good. A kindly man, he refuses to install bookkeeping machines in his offices, because they take away jobs. A thrifty man, he does not hesitate to take his family on vacations to Miami, Atlantic City, Lakewood, N. J. According to another Salop legend, when his first child was born, 16 years ago, Salop put her on his payroll at $75 a week...