Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might interest you to know that this Company, having a capital of three hundred and fifteen million dollars and a surplus of approximately one-quarter of a billion, has no bond issue, preferred stock or bank loans ahead of the common. The stock of this Company is, by the way, considered in the West our leading prime investment...
...Commercio, quasi-official daily, published an editorial rehearsing U. S.-Brazilian friendship, recalling that Brazil was first to recognize the Monroe Doctrine. The editorial also said: "Although we have always recognized what we owe to Europe and the necessity of our relations with the Old World, still we all know what we owe to solidarity of interests with the United States. We admire the North Americans and do not fear them, knowing that we are as strong a people as they...
When U.S. telephone subscribers ask for West 4251 and get East 4391, they slam down indignant receivers and call the New York (Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Savannah) telephone system the worst in the world. Of course they really know that the U.S. telephone system is the best in the world. And if they have tried to use South American telephones, they realize the shocking extent of their exaggeration...
...Ambassador and Mme. Paul Claudel. la Chicago she had intended to sing but instead she took to her bed with influenza, cancelled all future engagements. When newsmen asked Harvester Harold Fowler McCormick if his wife intended to forsake her singing, he answered: "I am sure I don't know, but I'd like to. Can't you find...
...presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...