Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned his hundreds of pounds into thousands and his thousands into millions by a series of wily maneuvers which have enabled him to get control of a huge, commanding bloc of Wagons-Lits securities. Shrewd, unctuous, Captain Cohn is not, however, the man to be satisfied with mere control. He is planning an amazing, manipulative coup. Last month he and Lord Dalziel visited Manhattan and quietly applied to list the shares of Wagons-Lits upon the New York Stock Exchange. If that listing is granted, they are reported to plan nothing less than the sale of both Wagons-Lits...
...sentimentality such as appears often in fairy tales but seldom in cinema. Agnes Thule, the youngest, hence the last, hence the ultimate Thule, falls in love with one Captain Von Vigilati, as does he with Agnes. Caught kissing, she is turned out of doors by the Thules, pere et mere. Then she goes to Vienna where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts in a timely reappearance. He must go off to war immediately, but first he has time...
...bogus antiques, planned to sell it at a huge profit. But her nephew, John Maple, who considered himself the rightful heir of Rackham, resolved to buy it at a humble figure. One weekend, Hilda invited to Rackham, with the idea of hornswoggling them into buying the place, gouty Lord Mere de Beaurivage and Lord Hamilcar Hellup, a retired U. S. millionaire. Lord Hellup's daughter, Bo, and her lover, John Maple, were also on the scene with nefarious plans. Being something of a ventriloquist and wearing spooky robes, John Maple makes Rackham seem haunted. Gouty Lord Beaurivage is carried...
...thing to do is ask his wife. For it has just come to light that Mrs. Coolidge, five weeks before the famous "choose" message, embroidered into a White House coverlet the dates 1923-1929 in token of her stay there, thus predicting by her infallible womanly intuition what the mere men of the country did not accept as true for many months after. If only every candidate for office were married, the need for conventions and elections to make a selection would be avoided; but cases like those of the present Secretary of Commerce, who has neither wife nor official...
...something infinitely old but in modern dress. Unfortunately the moralizing to which this problem is so often and so easily subjected is particularly ineffective. It is to be hoped that men in Mr. MacDonald's position and of his turn of mind will not forever be content with the mere discovery that the world is very much like the unfortunate but rather common individual who doesn't know what he wants and won't be happy till he gets...