Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons. Until the moment of delivery it is kept locked in an ancient red morocco budget box. To be sure that the box will open at the right moment, a Government locksmith calls annually on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to oil the lock and fiddle with the key...
...named Melvin Smith. With this evidence to provide the scent, the Federal operatives relentlessly followed a tortuous trail to Manhattan, to California, to Florida, back to Manhattan, to the Bahamas. Last week, in Manhattan again, the agents came to a full stop. Eight thieves had been put under lock & key, $310,000 of the $590,000 recovered. No. 1 man, whom the G-Men called "one of the shrewdest security thieves in the country," was a shifty-eyed, weasel-faced Manhattan barber. For all their trouble, the gangsters had been unable to cash one note. How they had effected...
When a slick Manhattan lawyer arrives in Mandrake Falls, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the village poet, receives his good news without removing from his lips the tuba which he plays in stress or inspiration. This is a characteristic reaction. It provides the key to his later behavior when, installed in his uncle's Manhattan mansion and bored by the task of humbling smart alecks who mistake his lack of polish for absence of wit, he finds recreation in feeding doughnuts to cab horses, chasing fire engines and sliding down the marble banisters...
...every three months covering operations for the preceding twelve months. Chief advantage is that it automatically irons out any seasonal factors in a company's business, each report taking in a full year of earnings. Analysts and accountants regard a series of twelve-month reports as a better key to an earnings trend than the piecemeal picture given by quarters...
...EARLIEST DREAMS-Nancy Hale- Scribner ($2.50). Fifteen short stories in minor key by a writer especially adept in dealing with feminine emotions. Author Hale writes with keen perception; at times, as in the title story, reaches a high poetic plane...