Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip right inside the house to get a good look at who is misbehaving-and for how much...
Soldiers demanded money-or-life from the Rev. John E. Williams of Nanking University and when he objected, they shot him, stripped him, and walked off (an eye-witness said) "chatting with each other as though they had shot only a pig or a dog." The body of Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marines was found shot and bloated in the Whangpoo River at Shanghai. Nanking's British Harbor Master was killed, too, and one French and one Italian Roman Catholic priest...
...paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...
Most of Cue's editors have a little money in the magazine, a little more money of their own, work for salaries averaging around $75 a week. They pride themselves on being sportsmen, compete madly at tennis, squash, billiards, chess. President Keep's dream: a gymnasium for Cue, where every male of his 80 employes would be compelled to take at least one hour's exercise every day. One of Cue's female employes describes the organization as "a casual kind of place, so friendly and full of gentlemen...
...partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...