Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heartless Giants...
...pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed...
Diagnosing his trouble as heartlessness, Nina set to work to galvanize the atrophied organ-into life. She sent him books, messages, messengers; she talked to him. reasoned with him, finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John...
...CRIMSON will perhaps remember that rather sweeping statement in the last sentence; that almost evry important item in the early history of Harvard College, and in a lesser sense today, has arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand. This was of course a rash and heartless statement, based on a newspaper man's false notion that the world moves on sentiment and sensation. But before the writer pleads guilty of ignoring the "great underlying forces which have molded Harvard's glorious history" he would like to point out that, of Harvard, the Great Rebellion does not mean...
...draw a very sharp distinction between the external obligations of any government, payable in the currencies on the markets where those obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right to tax the people until the issue is out of existence, almost." Heartless Contracts. Here & there in the U. S.. stern voices were raised to the effect that the Government ought to maintain international good faith by paying foreign holders of its bonds the equivalent of gold in paper dollars. But when May payments on billions & billions of dollars worth of public...