Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Paul Block bought the Los An-geles Evening Express (reputedly for $2.800.000) ten months ago, the Los An-geles Times set up a sustained cry that William Randolph Hearst was the real purchaser. That big Publisher Hearst and small Publisher Block are warm friends, mutual admirers, is no secret. Publisher Block, more an adman than a newsman, has the sole right to solicit national advertising for Hearst's New York American. Many an observer besides the Los Angeles Times has believed that their business relationship was much closer, took as evidence the fact that they had traded papers...
...daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold meat." His men trusted him, admired him at a distance; called him "that long-nosed b-r that beats the French." The admiration was not mutual. Wellington's frequently-expressed opinion of Tommy Atkins: "The scum of the earth, the mere scum of the earth. . . . The English soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. . . . The man who enlists into the British army is, in general, the most drunken and probably the worst...
Most people are afraid of a "dripping Wet'' candidate, not that "Prohibition that does not prohibit" is desirable but history indicates that "dripping Wet officials" and all kinds of graft and immorality go hand in hand and in their Mutual Admiration Society, "reciprocity" is their password and their slogan is "An aye for an aye and a toot for a toot...
...been the purpose of this meeting to reach any particular agreements but the informal discussions and exchanges of views have served to clarify many points of mutual interest and have established a sympathetic understanding...
Then she met Zachery Westcott, young naval officer. They made a mutual impression, but Leda was as rude to him as possible, tried to keep from seeing him. When daughter Marise met Westcott she fell in love with him very quickly; Leda, blind where her daughter was concerned, never noticed it. Westcott fell half in love with Marise, but Leda fascinated him. Marise's aunt saw what was coming and tried to warn Marise; before she could, Leda announced her engagement. Instead of fainting, Marise went into the bathroom and was sick. After Leda's honeymoon Leda died...