Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought you might be interested to know that I was so touched by it that I have just sent my personal check to him to further the great work he and his associates are doing...
...tactless Harry Vaughan stepped off a banana boat in New York last week after a vacation in Guatemala, and promptly put his foot in his mouth. The day was hot and so was he, but a reporter managed to tag him for a brief interview. The reporter wanted to know about his connections with James V. Hunt, the Washington "five percenter," who had said Vaughan was a close friend (TIME, July...
Wide Range. The investment trusts all grew from a simple idea spawned in Belgium more than a century ago. The idea was to help the investor who did not have time or the knowledge to know what stocks to buy or when to buy them. An investment company sells him its own stock, then uses his money and that of other investors to buy the shares of a wide range of companies...
...Sabbath Meditation he said: "My essential trouble, I sometimes suspect, is that I am quite devoid of what are called spiritual gifts. That is to say, I am incapable of religious experience, in any true sense ... I dislike any man who is pious, and all such men that I know dislike me." The Chrestomathy is liberally sprinkled with his truculent gibes at all faiths, but none feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally...
...with such relish that it finally settled into a kind of smugness. His iconoclasm became a trademark and an act; the Paris-green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that I would be as perfect a husband as a woman could find...