Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Herr Kreuger has raised many millions of dollars in foreign countries, none of his expansion program has been attended with any risk of loss of control. Class A shares of Kreuger & Toll, central Kreuger company, must be held by Swedes; Class B shares, permissible to foreigners, carry only one vote per thousand shares...
...wrestler but switched to boxing because he found no one willing to wrestle with him. Once at a country fair, annoyed by a strongman, he picked the strongman up, spanked him, was hailed as a fighter. He has fought a year and one-half, won 14, lost none. In the U. S. he will be managed by one William Duffy, sly Manhattan fixer and his partner Peter ("the goat") Stone...
...that follows nervous effort, was not quite ready for a series of comments like that. 'Excuse me, Mr. Eliot,' he said, 'but this is a subject on which I know more than you.' The President's face showed no trace of resentment, for the excellent reason that there was none to show. He had heard a sincere and devoted man tell him a plain truth. In such an utterance from such a man he saw nothing unbecoming. He wanted a certain sound from the trumpet...
...national interest and becomes a contest for the breathless world to watch. His scenes with Lady Beaconfield (Mrs. Arliss) are touching, without being sentimental; with Lord Probert (Ernest Torrence) he transmates financial discussions into powerful drama. The lovely Joan Bennett has charm in the innocuous romantic subplot. But none of the other characters are, or need to be, outstanding. The leading man carries off the play...
...Kept Woman Authoress Delmar again looks at Bronx domesticity, makes the colloquial-trivial often seem tragic. The story concerns one Lillian who preferred the sobriquet "kept woman" to the meaningless "wife." Her preference undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that her Keeper Hubert had a frigid, wealthy spouse who typified none of the connubial felicities. But Hubert feared that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances...