Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Senator Norris of Nebraska: "It demonstrates clearly that if you have money enough to hire lawyers, you will be found not guilty, even though you admit that you are guilty...
...With regard to the Jews, the subject is very difficult, but it is better to put the matter frankly," said Insurance Manager H. C. Normington, last week. "In a great number of cases when Jews hire a car they pack it with families and children and drive off for a joyous day's outing in an irresponsible way, not caring a straw about the car, because it is insured. They hire a car for the day and get the absolute maximum...
...telephoned each other. They decided to hire a suite of rooms at the Ritz-Carlton, near the Chrysler headquarters. And there for three days and nights they were alone. Waiters brought them food, awed attendants clean linen...
...first ungallant Telephone Bureaucrats merely shrugged and spoke of women, clumsy women, lazy women. The Ministry of Commerce put the matter very delicately in a statement that since funds were not available to hire more efficient telephone-persons, continued delays would have to be expected...
...mumble self-consciously, fumble with their vest pockets. They are proud to possess the key. They know that the key Has come into its own. Undergraduates have always voted, insincerely, that they would rather win it than a football letter. But only lately have potent business executives preferred to hire P. B. K. men. For example, Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., recently announced the results of a survey showing that "men from the first tenth of their college classes [equivalent of P. B. K. rank] have four times the chance of those from...