Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently the Pettigrews have further cause for astonishment. Peter Standish uses words like "cockeyed," "cigaret," "tank." He sits to Sir Joshua Reynolds, praises as his masterpiece a portrait not yet completed. He bewilders the Duchess of Devonshire with epigrams from Oscar Wilde, offends her by the historical tone of his compliments. He is not interested in Kate Pettigrew. He loves her sister Helen but he knows, from old diaries, that Peter Standish married Kate and Helen died when she was very young. Faced by the wry problem of an emotion at once timeless and defeated, Peter Standish finally finds himself...
...under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being a dyspeptic gentleman who with just cause abhorred ipecac (then the common remedy for colds), invented a Magic Croup Salve which he named after his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick. In time Druggist Richardson became a manufacturer and Vick's Magic Croup Salve became Vick's VapoRub. His two sons, H. Smith Richardson and Lunsford Richardson, inherited the company. By 1929 they had it earning $3,700,000 a year and they stayed with it when...
...next leap landed him in Texas with $3,000,000 in cash provided by the friends of his past prosperity in the form of subscriptions to the preferred stock of Cosden Oil Co. Joshua who had no money to put in was guaranteed 50% of the common. He shopped around in the oil field for months-looking for cheap oil lands. In 1927 he brought in a little well in Ector County, opening the Ector pool, and promptly sold a half interest to Texas Co. for $250,000 and two free wells. He bought a lease in Howard County that...
Last week at Big Spring, Tex., one of the springiest men in oil performed another of his remarkable saltations. With his first spring 23 years ago Joshua S. Cosden leaped out of a drugstore in Baltimore and landed in the boots of 50-million-dollar oilman in Tulsa. His second spring took him from the boots of Tulsa nouveau riche and landed him in the patent leather pumps of one of Manhattan's 400; with a $600,000 string of pearls for his wife (the second Mrs. Cosden by that time), with a million-dollar estate on Long Island...
...week in the Cosden refinery at Big Spring, George N. Moorse, receiver, faced a meager crowd of 200 to auction off Cosden Oil Co. By court order he was forbidden to take less than $500,000-for a company that had been valued at $40,000,000 in 1929. Joshua Cosden was in the crowd, his attorney and personal friends around him. He had little more to lose if the company passed into other hands though some of his friends would be wiped out. The auctioneer asked for bids. There was silence. Then Josh Cosden said, quietly...