Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that alcoholic stuff. I have had enough experience in the chemical laboratory to know that it had a heavy content of alcohol. He poured that in the glass and then he poured in some water?it was too strong to take raw?and he drank that and a lot of similar operations went on around the table...
...important question could not be answered, i. e.: to what extent would the Bear psychology of the market spread to business generally? Through last week, optimism was certainly more pronounced than pessimism. Stock brokers were far more pessimistic than businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never again would any U. S. citizen be able...
...chemise' policy. So far as Mr. Macfadden is concerned he agrees with me that the Graphic must and will be made into a high class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want to do is to cross Park Avenue with Third Avenue. I don't want to give up Third Avenue, but I want to get Park. I believe the people on both streets have much in common and one thing...
Without letting it bother me an awful lot, I always thought of football scouting as being a pretty low device and I wondered why colleges would agree to scout and be scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...
They have more scandal on the top of their tongue than the famous Barber's cat, and for sport they are worse than a lot of chicken doctors. So if ever I should be on a jury there are three parties I would never believe under oath, ministers, policemen and D.D.S...