Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock has paid no dividends, has never responded to continued reports of expansion. In 1928 its earnings were $1.91 a share. Previous attempts to distribute the stock, mostly held by speculators, have been unsuccessful. Early this year a group of brokers ran the stock to 37⅞, but before much was distributed it broke to 21½. Last week it was strong around 28 on belief that the Fox Birthday plan, if successful, will reduce the floating supply...
...return. She is amazed at this stranger who presumes to call himself Richard, who claims to be her pre-ordained spouse, who knows already the secrets of her bed. Whoever he is, wherever he obtained his bewildering knowledge of herself, he is warm, intimate, mystically compelling. So much so, that when stodgy Richard does return, she blasts his life by going away with Karl...
...American girls seem much the same as British girls except that they wear their clothes at different angles...
...With the disappearance of the isolated college and the reduction of American life to a more general common denominator, the modern undergraduate as a rule does not wish to be, much less to appear to be, a collegian. In his own opinion, he and the man of the world are as like as two peas. He abhors the collegiate; and if he is so, there is this extenuating circumstance in his favor: He is so in spite of himself...
...England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than the engineering, and finance did not so much appeal to him. When Chile Copper Co. was sold to Anaconda, he came back to the U. S., built himself his fine Norman manor on Long Island, had otherwise no occupation...