Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt to the RFC to the tune of $17,500,000. The late great Republican Senator James Couzens moved to investigate the ethics of Mr. Cummings' $90,000-plus annual salary intake from RFC babies while he was Treasurer of the Democratic party. But the Democrats collected a good war chest and won the 1936 election, and all was forgotten...
...Jesse Jones, who likes to get RFC's money back, this was presumably good news. On the other hand, Banker Jones also likes to keep a grip on key properties like Continental Illinois-it has a useful fiscal finger in many pies, especially railroads and bankruptcies, which have given it large profits, the RFC much useful information...
...ancient saying, sell when the good news is out, might account for these typical examples of recent stockmarket behavior. But certainly the stockmarket which bounded ahead enthusiastically when war commenced, last week showed a phenomenal indifference, if not distaste, for good news...
...asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which she finds insufficiently interesting. . . . She sees the quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic, glamorous. But dreaming, though a pleasant occupation, is not altogether easy. . . . The making of a really good reverie demands considerable effort of energy and imagination. How," asks the author, ''can the American woman who buys her bread sliced and her peas shelled be expected to concoct her own reveries?" The best parts of the book report how Hollywood concocts them...
...chested, skeleton-faced, he was so tiny that a fellow-traveler once said to him: "Sonny, get up and give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer, who had once called Secessionists "bad men and traitors...