Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casanova Brown (Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Patricia Collinge; TIME, Sept...
...ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful." From there he went to Cambridge, where he read Punch, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson and the law-and not much else. "There is a striking similarity...
...this week investment bankers will have the kind of new issue they like. Morgan, Stanley & Co. are heading a syndicate offering $100 million of American Tobacco debentures. The company will use most of the new money to build up its depleted tobacco inventory...
...Harry Morgan's adventures are also considerably altered. He smuggles Gaullists, slams pistols against Vichyites. Harry Morgan becomes, in fact, one of Humphrey Bogart's most edged portrayals of Nietzsche in dungarees, without whose hard resourcefulness one is forced to infer that the rest of the effete world would quickly fall apart...
...success was terrific. "The new wench. By Jesus, but she's handsome!" cried the gallants. Guards Captain Rex Morgan was bowled over. "I'm fretting my bowels to fiddle-strings over you," he moaned. Amber "felt herself sliding toward surrender and had no inclination to stop." Captain Morgan rented rooms...