Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...
...custom hereabouts," he wrote, "to put a shilling in the pockets of a boy's first long trousers to bring him luck and wealth. May it bring Rumania's handsome little king all the luck in the world, and any additional wealth that he may desire...
...first U. S. part, given her by Director Harrison Grey ("Mr. Minnie Maddern") Fiske was that of a Negro maid in Mrs. Boltay's Daughters. She acted hither and yon until Arthur Richman's sweetish comedy Not So Long Ago remained on Broadway for two seasons. Two greater successes followed: Liliom, The Swan...
...almost uninterrupted panic of selling that has fermented U. S. stock markets since Oct. 23. At the beginning of the week the path seemed as clear for further selling as in the summer it had for continued buying. The only thing that stood in the way was reason: long had speculators seemed to ignore reason. For the first three days, Panic held sway. Led by U. S. Steel, stocks dropped to new lows. Again there were tales of a "banking consortium" holding secret midnight meetings, tales of the "great bear pool...
Bullish corporate developments late in the week were many. An extra dividend of 30¢ was declared by General Motors Corp. Radio Corp. of America, long the prime scoffing object of "inflation" criers, showed earnings of $8,729,389 for the third quarter, compared to $1,409,299 in the preceding quarter. Announcement was made that the $250,000,000 patent suit brought by Bethlehem Steel Corp. against United States Steel Corp. had been settled out of court. The Aviation Corp. announced it had used part of its $20,000,000 cash surplus to buy stocks other than aeronautical securities...