Word: homed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current flock of troubles has risen to plague him. In April, when he pulled the call money market through a tight place, he received general kudos (though it was then that Senator Glass first began to reflect upon "Mitchellism," its nature and evils). But in October Mr. Mitchell arrived home from Europe just in time to anticipate the greatest Market crash in history with a bullish pronouncement. When the banking consortium was formed to halt the panic, it was the House of Morgan that received most of the plaudits; furthermore the bankers did not precisely drop the panic...
Thus Mr. Mitchell and his troubles. But Mr. Mitchell likes exercise and combat. He daily goes through setting up exercises, frequently walks from his home (No. 934 Fifth Avenue) to his office (No. 55 Wall Street). He likes surf-swimming, the rougher the better. He plays tennis with slams and bangs. As he sits at his rather old-fashioned desk, overlooked by a picture of George Washington, and listens to his three telephones ringing, his curved eyebrows may become a bit more Mephistophelian as he remembers one of his pet business maxims?that the typical U. S. system...
With the revelation of Miss Shotwell's identity her cheery confession became more understandable. She is a pianist. When she was 12, her father brought home his friend John Neal, to hear her play. So impressed was John Neal that upon his death in 1923 he left her $1,000,000 in Reynolds Tobacco stock. She sewed in her chinchilla coat a bar of the song she had played for John Neal, Liszt's Liebestraum...
...picture, made as an experiment by the Philadelphia Police Department, of a murderer, one William E. Peters, confessing his crime. With a tired, unshaven face and worn, disordered clothes pulled and stretched by fierce handling in the patrol wagon, Peters told slowly about going to his girl's home, following her upstairs, quarreling with her, shooting...
...next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry Goldsmith's music store in Columbus because whenever he tried out a clarinet for a customer people thought he had gone crazy. He kept running away from store jobs to work in bands but was usually sent home because he could not play in time. After he left Fuller's band he made a hit. Lewis enlarged his stage until it included the whole continent. Although he preceded in popularity such current figures as Paul Whiteman and Meyer Davis he has consistently refused to take his profession...