Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually, Myron Taylor cut down his textile holdings and became essentially a banker. He was elected to the directorate of two railroads- the New York Central and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; he was made a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. It was rumored that Banker Baker persuaded Myron Taylor to become one of the directors of U. S. Steel; surely, it was his support coupled with the approval of John P. Morgan that gave Myron Taylor one of the three executive offices in this gargantuan corporation...
BURLESQUE-Life laughs in tights and putty noses behind the scenes in burlesque theatres...
...Night Life. Even amid the beer gardens of Austria, the love of a good woman will make a conjuring pickpocket go straight. With Johnny Harron in the leading role, this famed fatuity is illustrated as clumsily as ever before...
...list was the name of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Four times has he jumped for dear life, oftener than any native flyer. His disciples wondered why he has discarded the device to which he owes four debts of life. In Central America he is flying without a parachute...
Social workers should include fiction in their homework. Novelists know more about life and are better observers than the serious "workers." So said Miss Lorine Pruette, writer, psychologist, at the meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies-17 scientific bodies specializing in history, economics, sociology...