Word: nick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been back long before Nick and I decided that we were engaged and that we might as well announce our engagement, as the papers were daily doing it for us. I remember that I felt shy and self-conscious about telling the family that we were engaged. I had the perfectly unwarranted feeling that they might be 'sentimental' about it. I put off telling for a long time. Finally, one evening I followed Mother into her bathroom, and told her the news while she was brushing her teeth, so that she should have a moment to think before...
...again and have them made over. She also sent me two rings, a pair of earrings, some white jade, a white fox coat, and an ermine coat. The Chinese had a very proper idea of gifts!" And a bit of really ancient history: ". . . Instead of saying nothing and letting Nick go to the dinner, I told him the horrid news of the seating, whereat he promptly said he would not go, that he was very glad to get out of the despised dry dinner, using as an excuse 'the slight' to the foreign ladies. The next...
...Nicholas Roberts, former head of the defunct bosdhouse of S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor") was unceremoniously arrested in Manhattan last August on a charge of grand larceny brought by two Straus bondholders, the Misses Anna & Katherine Kuhlmann (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week Nick Roberts, whose annual barn party for Yale footballers in Montclair, N. J. was a nationally famed event, was completely exonerated. After a short trial the judge ruled that there "was not a scintilla of evidence" to support the charges...
...risen to be vice president of famed S. W. Straus & Co., the bondhouse that advertised "44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni who had "won their Y in life...
...millions of dollars of Straus Bonds were bitterly delighted, for many of their bonds have gone into default and Straus & Co. folded up last spring. All they remembered was that they had lost money in spite of Straus & Co.'s protestations of conservatism and good faith. When Nick Roberts came out of Tombs Court under $5,000 bail, a man shouted, "Here, do you want one?" and threw a handful of bonds...