Word: headed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...above floors. The floors of high grade Vermont marble are in place and it is expected that in two months time the addition will be settled and ready for occupancy. An added space of three feet between the two new floors insures better ventilation and less crowded over head space than in the old stacks...
...office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls in love. He tells her how, in Mexico, he killed a native by hitting him on the head with a bottle full of pebbles. When he has gone away, the woman does this to her husband and to explain his death she tells the story of "two big, dark-looking men." In court she confesses her crime and in prison is killed for having committed...
...fortune and won the heroine, impersonated by the spry and pretty Barbara Newberry. Aside from the mechanical innovations, the most noteworthy ingredient of Good Boy was Charles Butterworth, cast in the role of a cynical farm-lout. This curious and doleful personage often put his hands above his head and remarked, "Oh, the pity...
...capital and surplus, more money than any bank ever started with.* And it has Mr. Howell as its senior executive. Thirty years ago he was one of Carnegie's bright young men-with Charles Michael Schwab, Henry Clay Frick and others who became millionaires. Mr. Howell was head of the Carnegie Steel Co.'s credit department. Later he became a vice president of the National Bank of Commerce in Manhattan, and extended his personal financial work. Then came directorships with the Bankers' Trust Co., the Equitable Life Assurance Society...
...little legacy to each he leaves in this last volume. Destiny Bay is the bonniest corner of Ireland, where the purplest heather grows, the gamest trout swim, the swiftest horses race, the most picturesque of gypsies roam, and the finest gentlefolk rule. Head of the ruling family is Sir Valentine, red-bearded from eye to waist, soft of heart, sharp of eye, with a ready curse for any emergency. For the sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother...