Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building in Montreal is the dazzling white granite home of Sun Life Assurance Co. In that building, president of the company as his father was before him, sits Thomas Bassett Macaulay. Life is peaceful and secure to Mr. Macaulay. He is an important figure in Montreal's closely-knit tycoonarchy. Sometimes he lunches at the St. James or Mount Royal Club with stocky, dapper Edward Wentworth Beatty of the C. P. R. or grave Sir Herbert Samuel Holt of the Royal Bank of Canada, both directors of his company. Summers he spends at Hudson Heights, raising fine Holsteins, experimenting...
...State-wide campaign for 30,000 sponsors progressed last week, a definite season was forecast with Composer Stringfield the choice for conductor. At the trial concert three weeks ago Mr. Stringfield's performance gave great impetus to the State-symphony idea. His music was spirited, well-knit in spite of limited rehearsal. His debonair manner is as impressive as any imported foreigner's. Otto Hermann Kahn telegraphed congratulations. North Carolinians are particularly proud of Mr. Stringfield's musical allegiance to his home soil. He has studied and conducted in the North but his composition which...
Gruff, bespectacled President Coburn had tied the sprawling transport line of the corporation into the closely knit system which is now American Airways Inc. He abandoned some unprofitable lines and added new routes until it was possible to fly from Montreal to Los Angeles via American Airways. Before he took office Avco had more than 80 subsidiaries (including schools, charter services, factories, sales companies). Before he left there were less than 20. His economies reduced a net operating loss of $2,464,000 for the first nine months of 1930, to $628,000 for the same period last year...
...States Army, recent military attache in China, reports that China has great man power available with a total of 2,500,000 men under arms in military formations at the moment. Although China has all the instruments of modern warfare, tanks, air guns, and airplanes they have never been knit into the Chinese military fabric. The individual Chinese soldier is very easily disciplined and because his wants are so small is able to stand great privation...
Realizing that no tightly-knit piece could be made of Mr. Priestly's rambling and episodic story, the producers have adopted a cinematic technique by which they wander all over England in sixteen scenes. These are well thought out and deftly managed in performance...