Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That there is a limit beyond which stock market letters may not go in their often dangerous practice of making misstatements and starting rumors which affect stock prices, was shown by the recent retraction by W. C. Moore of his charges that Edward L. Doheny was lying about his company, the Mexican Petroleum Company. Back in 1921, when the price of "Mex Pete" was fluctuating widely on rumors regarding the oil situation in Mexico, Moore, in his "market letters," insinuated that the Company was unsound and being misrepresented by its officers...
...Oxford-Cambridge tennis team of seven has arrived for the American Intercollegiatete. M. D. Horn, their ace, forced William M. Johnston, second ranking American who is now playing in England, to his ultimate limit to win at 12-10, 6-4, just before the team's departure for America...
...Roosevelt's floor-leader in the regular Convention, would not join the third party, and remained a "regular" Republican. He told Roosevelt he was a progressive but not an insurgent. "What's the difference?" asked the Colonel. "An insurgent," said Hadley, "is a progressive who is exceeding the speed-limit...
...Saida (Sidon), Syria, 600 beautiful and unmarried girls pine for husbands. There are none in Saida. Sadly they gaze across the Mediterranean and sigh for the United States. The Syrian quota is full. Desperately determined, the girls would sail to the three-mile limit and invite matrimonially inclined Americans to choose their brides. This suggestion is said to have reached the Near East Relief...
...Mencken he included in that party; then, to complete it, Ben Hecht, D. H. Lawrence and Justice Ford. What a happy time they would all have! Seriously, what could be better in warm weather like this, than a shipload of conveniently opposed viewpoints, outside the three-mile limit, with a fair breeze and a cool coral island as destination. I should like to describe the Tusitala. I think that it is a three-masted, square-rigged schooner. Is that right, my salty lads...