Word: looping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king snake swallowed an egg, crawled through the loop handle of a jug up to the egg, then swallowed another egg and was thus locked in the handle...
...assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve. In 1907 came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant to the president of Trust Co. of America, Mr. Mitchell had hardly unpacked his grip when the Panic of 1907 arose to greet...
...whom "the rest" consist. One was the announcement of a new investment corporation ? Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates of these new invest ment trusts each represent a distinct "set" in Chicago finance. One represents the Loop.* the other the North Shore; one represents a self-made generation, the other a second generation of inherited wealth and social prominence. Loop Team (Manhattan-Dearborn Corp.) John Daniel Hertz, Austrian born, "re tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from...
...interested in both the Chicago and New York Yellow Cabs. A onetime newsboy, he took part (in 1915) in an Old Newsboys' Day, stood on a corner with his newspapers, sold them out swiftly by the expedient of crying, falsely, facetiously, "Doubleuxtree! Charlie Ross is found!" There is a Loop story that when the late J. Ogden Armour was in a state of acute financial difficulty, Mr. McCulloch offered him a check for one million dollars. "Thank you, Charlie," said Mr. Armour, "but it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket." Mr. McCulloch lives at No. 936 Lake Shore...
...Central business district, bounded by a loop of the elevated railway...