Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones & Co. was sold in 1902 to Clarence Walker Barron, a self-taught finance expert from Boston, Barron kept the Journal hard on course...
...divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke until the great moment when he found himself puffing cigarettes with three hands...
...sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
...accompanied by a price hike in gold to provide more adequate backing for the vast expansion of money and credit in the last few decades. Some economists who do not advocate a return to the gold standard nonetheless want a price hike. They argue that the U.S. has artificially kept gold at a fixed price since 1934, while the prices of the world's goods and services have more than doubled, and that not enough gold has been produced to keep up with the world's economic strides. The freeing of gold, they feel, is a logical economic...
...legends about him were legion. Dun & Bradstreet, so the story goes, once characterized him: "Estimated worth, $500,000,000. Pays bills promptly." Yet he had been broke so often, he once quipped, that "I thought it was habit forming." Always on the go, he kept three sets of suitcases in his two-room suite at the Fort Worth Club, packed with clothes for three different climates-hot, cold and medium...