Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was, just after the War, some difficulty in sending money from the U. S. to certain states in the interior of Europe. To insure safety, people who wanted to do so entrusted their currency to travelers rather than the mails. Jake Horowitz got the notion that it might be profitable to act as a paid courier for this purpose and set out, with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw...
...many of the people that know him like him. He has a way, though, of hurting people's feelings, especially those of the people that work for him, by showing them how their jobs ought to be done. If on such occasions he did their work clumsily, it might make him popular. He does it well and then, with an obtuseness common to most intelligent and sensitive persons, forgets to apologize. His face is likely to be covered with short bristles, a condition which, as he is doubtless aware, teases and annoys. Jed Harris edits and attends...
...great racqueteers have alienated public favor when it might have done them the most good. One was Vincent Richards, onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...
...They might mean consolidation of Chicago's two largest banks into a $1,000,000,000 institution, second in size only to the National City Bank (N. Y.). Listed in order of deposits, the new U. S. banking chart might read...
Butte became certainly the ugliest town in the world, surrounded by mountains of gray-green refuse and black slag. Within the mines, men faced the imminent dangers of cave-ins and fires. When the timber supports once became ignited there was no hazarding when the fire might end. The St. Lawrence mine at Butte caught fire in 1899. Last week, it was still burning. And when miners were not meeting underground dangers, they kept one hand on their guns. Strangers in Butte spoke softly. Painted women learned it was safer to laugh than to talk...