Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wears a rather nice polo coat and always tops it off with a tan cap, vintage of the 1920's. He stands on corners around the Square a good bit even now and says hello to most everyone. Most everyone says hello to him, too. He generally doesn't know their names, but they almost always know his. The Vagabond is one of his pals, although he doesn't know that Vag is Vag. Many a student, not excluding Vag, is indebted to this soft little man, for when they are desperate for a fin, he will take practically anything...
...anyone used to know about Allied's portfolio was its total ($92,000,000 in 1932). Because there were accepted rumors that it was composed of nothing but blue chips. Wall Street was horrified when Orlando Weber was badgered five years ago into admitting that the biggest single holding listed as an asset was really a liability - $31,000,000 of Allied's own stock...
...security flotations, was last week told by Vice President Charles W. Kellogg of Virginia Electric & Power that private selling is short-sighted even though it does avoid underwriting costs and the irks of registration. Said he: "The buyers for the large life insurance companies are very canny gentlemen. They know just about what it costs to get an issue registered. They know just about what the spread that the company will pay to an investment banking group to sell their bonds will be. And they insist on getting both these things themselves in the price they offer for the bonds...
That poets have low incomes is no more news than that they are temperamental. But few people know just how little an eminent U. S. poet can expect to earn from his verse. Last week The Academy of American Poets released figures comparing the average annual earnings of poets with those of professional men, defining an established poet as one in middle life, with four volumes to his credit, and "unmistakably anointed by the muses." From his books this unlucky genius can expect to get about $250 a year. Poems sold to magazines may bring him another $250. But that...
...earthiness and quiet backwoods simplicity that made her first novel, The Time of Man, a best-seller and a critic's favorite. Instead of plain Kentucky hill folks, its characters were strange, unreal philosophers who explained at great length, in highly polished sentences, that they did not know what it was all about. It thus became that most embarrassing of literary performances- an extremely bad book by a distinguished writer-and critics, murmuring politely about Miss Roberts' style, looked the other...