Word: hobnob
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While Marva likes to hobnob with the Negro upper crust in Manager Roxborough's palatial French Provincial house, Joe prefers the company of his old pals. A few days after he won the world's championship from Jim Braddock in 1937-while Negro society was burning wires to get him to their salons-Joe was in Detroit, sitting on a dirty curbstone, eating apples and arguing with the boys about his prowess as a softball player...
...successful was Selfridge & Co., Ltd. that its owner was able to buy ducal mansions, hobnob with London sophisticates. So wild was "King" Selfridge's personal spending that he had to found a holding company-The Gordon Selfridge Trust, Ltd.-with his Selfridge & Co. common as assets to raise ?1,100,000 of quick money. By 1933 he was some $1,000,000 in debt again. Then Selfridge & Co. headed for trouble...
...pushed to Guatemala in five and a half hours. Same afternoon he was in San Jose, 24 hours earlier than if he had taken Pan Am's roundabout route from Brownsville, Tex. After delivering the papers to various Central American politicos, Yerex stayed to hobnob with Central American cronies, try to bolster TACA prestige...
...piled up. To help lug it, Pan Am this week will step up its transatlantic service (New York to Lisbon) from two to three runs a week. Bolstered by an extra plane crew, transatlantic pilots, radiomen, mechanics will lie over between trips at Lisbon, may there hobnob with British, French and Italian airline men, all operating across Europe from neutral Portugal...
...Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court do not, by tradition, hobnob with the President of the U. S. William Orville ("Bill") Douglas is different. He is only 40; had never been any kind of judge; until only six weeks ago, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him, he was chairman of SEC. Last week end he cruised with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins on the Potomac. Chief conversational topic: the current state of U. S. business. When Harry Hopkins got back to his desk he expressed what was doubtless the trio's consensus: that to read the latest resolutions...