Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night after night in the Chi Psi fraternity house at Middlebury College, Vermont, a lank, black-haired youth used to sit at the piano, pounding out the lusty lament about the brave engineer's "farewell trip to the Promised Land." Since the piano-thumper's name was Jones, he was nicknamed "Casey." His first initials, C. S. for Charles Sherman, perpetuated the nickname from those days, 20 years ago, until he became an aviator. Then it stuck as the perfect name for a hard-bitten pilot. It helped make him a glamorous figure in the swashbuckling period...
Features of the first issue: a lament by Havelock Ellis over the neglect of the psychophysical processes of sex in medical education; an article by Ernest Boyd deriding the pseudo-erudition of the U. S. aesthete, the New Humanists, and what he called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church...
...wrote the "Chapin for Lament" article to note, whether he refuses to accept them or not. MORGAN J. HAMMERS...
...critics of another co-operative banking enterprise, American Securities Investing Corp. ("the bond pool"), formed by J. P. Morgan & Co. and other banks to purchase sound but depreciated bonds for profit (TIME. June 13). Its formation marked the turn in the bondmarket. Officered by Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and George Whitney as president and board chairman, A. S. I. C. has called for only $10,000,000 of its subscribed $100,000,000. Even on that sum Wall Street thinks it must have rolled up a fat profit. A boiling bond- market last week brought the Dow-Jones averages...
...brought are generally "combination and conspiracy" to restrain trade or efforts to fix prices.* Even the steel industry has drawn Governmental fire, for allegedly pegging the price of rails at $43 a ton since 1923. Through the twilight zone between legal co-operation and anti-trust law violation, President Lament will have to thread his way. Knowing that he will be supported by President Hoover in his efforts to resuscitate a prime industry, few steelmen doubted his surefootedness...