Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesse Livermore, Wall Street operator, famed Bear, having received threats against his life following the stockmarket crash, made known that he had hired an armed bodyguard...
...intense appreciation of the good things of life; good wine, good music, were appreciated to the full; his capacity for enjoyment was not marred by any pangs of doubt as to whether the course he happened to be pursuing was right. It was always right-always inevitable. He once said that he never regretted anything he had done-his only regret was for the opportunities for enjoyment which he had foregone or missed. Above all, he enjoyed the success of his own policy and was rightly proud of the service he had rendered to his country and the great personal...
...malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...
...kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon & Schuster vow that his latest book, Caught Short, about the stockmarket, was written by the author in person one rainy Sunday afternoon (TIME...
...fomenting juvenile sedition. Until the last decade, Whig and its rival, the Cliosophic Society, one year younger, held positions of social importance on the campus. Undergraduate lassitude caused them to merge into one Hall last year. But many an oldtime Whig and Clio debater has made good in after life as a pedagog or politician. Two U. S. Presidents, five presidents of Princeton, were Whigs. One night last week Whig observed its 160th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the graduation of a member who was both a Princeton and a U. S. President -Thomas Woodrow Wilson...