Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most laudatory passages in "Deadline," however, were from Benson obituary notices which reporters swiped from their publishers' newspaper morgues. Typical hold-for-death quotes from anti-Benson newspapers: "Elmer A. Benson will go down in history as one of Minnesota's outstanding Governors. . . . Governor Benson displayed courage, forcefulness, and never yielded in his fight to aid the common man. . . . Even his enemies called him great...
...received the following wire from Franklin Roosevelt: "If the political writers on Minnesota papers are inferring that I have deliberately withheld approval from or disapproved candidacy of your Progressive Governor for reelection, they are of course misinterpreting my attitude. I have repeatedly indicated the high esteem in which I hold Governor Benson...
City College's student publications thereupon published belated reviews of this book. Chapter titles: "A Platonic Kiss," "A Siren's Boudoir," "A Mistress Dissatisfied." Its big scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
Drawing and painting were added to the time-honored forms of occupational therapy (basket-weaving, metal work, etc.) at Bellevue in the spring of 1935. The Federal Art Project furnished artist-instructors to hold four or five classes a week for all children and adults, except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed...
...present 20-to-1 between a broker's indebtedness and working capital; 4) separation of brokerage and dealer capital; 5) all loans by members, unless fully secured, must be reported; 6) statements on underwriting position to be filed weekly; 7) a central depository to be set up to hold customers' funds now held by brokers...