Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former RFC director and onetime South Carolina banker, Sam Husbands, in the words of his onetime boss Jesse Jones, "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S." He also knows a lot about what goes on in Washington. FRB is backing a bill in Congress which would give the board greater regulatory powers over bank holding companies that control more than 15% of the stock of an operating bank. Once Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America are reduced to 11.1%, it could argue that FRB should not be concerned with Transamerica even though the 11.1% might...
...Trollope came prepared to appraise and evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...
...great novelist Gustave Flaubert and brought into the master's Sunday literary circle. There he sat at the feet of Europe's literary greats: Turgenev, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Hippolyte Taine and occasionally Henry James. Zola remembered De Maupassant as "a proud he-man [who] told us dumfounding stories about women, amorous swaggerings that sent Flaubert into roars of laughter...
Soon things begin to go oadly for Johnny. Chiseling financiers drive Kessler out of the fabulously successful company, then begin to edge Johnny out. The man-eating Dulcie beds herself with every available partner in Hollywood, though somehow Johnny does not learn what is going on until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. But in the end, as the reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember...
There have been between seven and eight barbers since 1945. Two who left to go to war in 1941 returned four years later and resumed their posts. When a man comes to work for La Flamme's, he usually stays around a while. Of the present employees, Lombardi and Capolupo have been there 30 and 29 years respectively; the others have worked ten, ten, nine, nine, and three years. La Flamme's, in a way, grows on them...