Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never loved money for its own sake. ... I have tried to make money that it might be an instrument of service...
...poets' wives are pressed for money. Recently when Mrs. Alfred Noyes decided to lay her hands on an extra ?30.000 ($150,000) or so, she knew exactly how to touch the money. She would sell an old manuscript left her by her grandfather. For years it had been displayed on loan at the British museum...
Last week the British Museum was able to announce: that Mrs. Noyes had sold her manuscript privately for ?32,476 ($157,500); that the money had been advanced by Mr. Morgan; that if the British Museum should raise ?32,476 within a year and pay it to Mr. Morgan they could keep the Luttrell Psalter forever; that anyhow they can keep it for a year on loan...
...existence. How the Gammal-Svenksby exiles had no shoes, little food, few clothes, and how they longed to return to the Sweden their ancestors had left. He saw and particularly impressed the King's brother, Prince Karl, Duke of Vastergottland. In a few weeks he had raised enough money to enable the Swedish Red Cross to transport the entire 900 inhabitants of Old Swedish Town back across Europe to Sweden...
...from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams, if all the utilities in which he is interested should suddenly be demolished, one U. S. electric light out of every ten would go dark. The investor in Shenandoah is virtually turning his money over to Sidney Weinburg and Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs and to Harrison Williams of Central States Electric Corp. -men whose names are million-dollar assets in billion-dollar industries...