Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-three years ago a young Norfolk lawyer received a letter from a member of the Virginia Corporation Commission : "I have carefully considered your application for a charter for your hybrid and mongrel banking institution. Frankly, I don't know what it is. It isn't a savings bank; it isn't a state or national bank; it isn't a charity. It isn't anything I ever heard of before. Its principles seem sound, however, and its purposes admirable. But the reason that I am going to grant a charter is because I believe...
...understudy part; luck brings the big chance. She is a tremendous success--the usual Hollywood thing--with banks of flowers, heaps of sequins, trays of importunate little cards. But not one of the little cards has the right name engraved on it, for there is no right name; there isn't anybody at all that matters. Little Eva, with her name in electric lights, knows now that success is just an abstract noun. It isn't what she dreamed of back in Vermont. It doesn't mean a thing. Sunt rerum lacrimae. Finis...
...would you like to be the most talked-of man in the history of the world? How would you like to sell twenty times more pictures than you do now? ... I have a plan. I have chartered a boat and I call it my Peace Ship. In reality it isn't any peace ship at all. ..." I asked if she hoped to bring peace. She said: "You know we can't do that...
...stride. Dartmouth emerged victorious from the Penn match and is rejoicing over Harvard's showing. It will be in town next Saturday aching for a taste of the Crimson's blood after two years of deprivation. The Indians won on a pass on Saturday, and if Harvard isn't able to knock down aerials better than it did against Holy Cross, the Hanover team will win through the air next Saturday. The line needs more charge on the offense and more solidity on the defense. Too many tackles were left for the secondaries on Saturday...
...With President Roosevelt impatient to get his last major code out of the way, General Johnson gave his off-hand opinion of Article VIII: "Economists say this invoice cost plus 10% is pyramiding, but I can't see that. We want to stop widespread price-cutting. There isn't a business that can make a retail turnover on less than 10%. There are some esoteric arguments made against the plan, but I can't see them...