Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a smart tennis player, Cyrus Eaton had more than once caught the Securities & Exchange Commission flat-footed in its long battle to revoke the underwriting license of his investment house, Otis & Co. SEC charged that Eaton had instigated a suit against Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and then used the suit to get out of underwriting a stock issue for K-F when it seemed that Otis might lose millions on the deal. Eaton neatly handled that hot serve. He sued SEC in the U.S. District Court. It ruled that there was insufficient evidence against Otis. SEC took the case...
...Like many another paintmaker, Cleveland's Glidden Co. was running into trouble. Its sales for six months were 20% below the same period a year ago; even its new, fast-drying "Spred-Satin" paint was selling slowly. But Glidden's tall, lean President Dwight P. Joyce was not one to take it lying down. Tired of "too much talk about business conditions and not enough action," he rounded up 32 of his top executives and dispatched them one Saturday morning to 28 Cleveland retail stores to peddle paint...
Joyce himself visited 15 stores and, like the other executives, demonstrated and hawked his product with the vigor of an oldtime pitchman (see cut). The results: usual Saturday sales of Spred-Satin quadrupled, purchases of other Glidden paints doubled. It was such a success that last week Glidden Co. planned to repeat the performances in Chicago, Baltimore and St. Louis...
...time but never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when they fail to do so, there is always someone close at hand to do it for them, grimly. Thus, at its best, a Compton-Burnett novel is like an iceberg whose normally concealed 90% has risen to the surface-something apt to make any average man a trifle uneasy...
...brilliant qualities. There are flashes of darting spite ("I hope I am not disturbing you at your luncheon, Mrs. Cassidy." "Thank you, Miss James. It is so kind to cling to the hope") and devastating responses to thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than savagery itself: "Maria had also a vein of justice, and though she regretted [her stepson's] existence and his grandfather's, never questioned their right...