Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack" (to a very few friends) Morgan had been carefully reared by his father in the traditions of personalized private banking. But his own and his father's flair for men surrounded him with partners whose brilliance obscured everything but the Morgan name. Stotesbury, Stettinius, Cochran, Lament, Morrow, Davison-such men made the term "Morgan partner" a semi-mythical synonym not only for (at one time) $1,000,000 a year, but for financial diplomacy on an international scale. When War came, it was Partners Henry P. Davison and Dwight W. Morrow who led the House of Morgan into...
...limb of some small tree in the Yard and cast appealing looks at the lady of his choice, Libby Esler '43, who had supposedly refused him a date. The climax for assembled photographers was to be the moment when the Radcliffe miss finally consented, and the lover's unique lament could be ended...
...agitation for civil service reform is the idea that the service should try to attract young men from colleges. It was probably Henry Adams who began the lament that "gentlemen just aren't going into politics these days." That was in the Gilded Age, when capitalism gorged itself on the resources of the nation and made government its subservient tool. The real history of that Age lies in the annals of business, not the archives of government. So it was that men whom the business interests considered "safe" gained easy election to Congress, and the Senate was dubbed the "rich...