Word: nobler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vengeful government in every far corner of the world, only to be hailed "not guilty" by the courts. This verdict following on the heels of the recent Tennessee pronouncements may mark the nadir of utility disrepute. Perhaps the majority of utility stocks have at last passed into nobler and purer hands who will at some later time, dispense them at profitable prices as a reward for their virtue and foresight...
...that others do not seem to see eye to eye with him. His stock slipped drearily some 11 points. At the same time the utility average registered a new all-time low, some points below the old bear market barrier. Some day, when the utility stocks have passed into nobler and purer hands, we may again become bullish on them, but just now the best thing to do is to sit tight...
Object of the Brook Club was to spread a post-Prohibition repast equal to any that Paris' No. 1 Oenophile can get at home. Next day, after mature reflection, M. le Baron positively affirmed that this had been done: "Never in Paris itself have I had a nobler meal. The whole perfect, even to the condition of each wine! And now, after so memorable an evening, I must really taste some California wines...
Astonished by their own victory, Labor leaders last week promised to match Vienna's shell-scarred apartment houses with 100,000 small houses, promised to clear London's slums, overhaul its hospitals and schools, "build a worthier and nobler city...
...wines or liquors, never known that alcoholic drinks should be smelled, tasted, sipped, reflected upon, instead of being gulped with a prayer, never known when sherry, when burgundy, when port, when madeira should be served; a generation that has, in "drinking for drunkee," lost sight of the milder and nobler uses of alcohol...