Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still hold her audience entranced is a tribute to the debonair Lawrence of England. Her precise timing, her walk, her little habit of patting her bosom and her clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected, hysterical gaiety of Fontaine to the throaty rasp of Blanche Calloway, and a mischievous drawl at the end of each sentence mocks her own words...
...Marie Stopes, mother of two, for her famed Cardiff, Wales birth-control clinic, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, father & mother of none, sent a ?20 ($100) check...
...realistic ways life. To great-hearted Hotspur honor is everything. But Falstaff asks: "Can honor set to a leg? . . . Honor hath no skill in surgery then? . . . Who hath honor?-he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. . . . Therefore I'll none of it." So Falstaff lives; and Hotspur dies...
TIME'S Index competes with none of these standard indexes but seeks rather to appraise the factors underlying the business activity they record. This is done by analyzing the weekly Federal Reserve Board banking figures just as an accountant would analyze a corporation statement. Prime clues to a corporation's intrinsic soundness are such financial factors as its working capital position, its sales to inventory ratio, the quality of its so-called assets. The soundness of U. S. business as a whole is similarly reflected in the nation's banking figures...
...went to a good preparatory school, graduated from an Eastern university, had influential friends and a high social rating. Of the present twelve partners, ten are university graduates, all are listed in the Social Register. The three new partners are all public-school men; only one went to college; none is in the Social Register; none got his start through influence...