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...investment trust is the alleged inability of the individual to choose stocks wisely. Let older and wiser heads, operating with large amounts of capital (runs the argument) do your investing for you. Then to you the poorhouse will never beckon, and at your door no wolf will ever howl. Logical, in many ways, is this theory (though it involves faith, hope and occasionally some charity regarding investment trusts and their management) but many a U. S. investor, doggedly individualistic, will doubtless continue to pick his own issues, watch his own ticker and, if necessary, lose his own shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Broun's Money | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Casting offices in Hollywood last week offered $15 per day to those who could best howl like dogs, make parrot-noises, imitate chickens, cats and neighing horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Robe. It is not customary, when the Shuberts produce a good operetta, for the public to howl so loudly with joy as when "Ziggy," the maestro and artist, produces a mediocre one. Thus The Three Musketeers, last spring, an elaborate musicale, provoked more ardent cheers than The Red Robe, last week, which was just as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

After all, there aren't as many riots as there used to be, and the police record is slimmer than it was. Probably Dogberry would be the first to bless that occasional political phenomenon that lifts so many to their hind legs for one good howl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG PARADE | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...coward and "fears" no one, unless it be some cowardly assassin, a religious fanatic. Heflin is to be congratulated in having the "Guts" to stand up and swat the "Monster," the enemy of real Americanism. Of course our yellow, lying, subsidized sheets and journalistic prostitutes will jibe and howl when Heflin makes a speech. We need several more like him in our U. S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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