Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That sweetening of labor which is a salary bonus sifted unexpectedly and in unusual ways upon three working groups last week. In Manhattan, each employe of the First National Bank discovered one morning a novel mid-year gift, an unexpected bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At the end of a year every bank employe expects some kind of bonus. It is his wage gamble against usually meagre salaries. This bonus was different. It was the personal gift of the bank's board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated...
...financial ABC's. "Consider public opinion," "frank and honest information about corporation business," "particular cordiality to stockholders," "no more damning of public or government," "conforming to existent laws," "cooperation rather than competition," "consideration for labor," "8-hour day." These phrases sound stale nowadays. A generation ago they were novel, might have continued so yet. But Judge Gary who invented them-something few of the younger businessmen know-applied them practically to the conduct of the U. S. Steel Corp., when in 1901 he took command as J. P. Morgan Sr.'s* direct agent...
...have told Natalia that if she writes another novel before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
...towered a great funeral pyre. From a platform before it the Bishop celebrated mass. Then a match crackled, the pyre towered into flame. For an hour, untiring, zealous, the Bishop cast upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...
Allow me to congratulate you upon having stepped back into the province of irremediable respectability with your editorial of June 16 entitled: The Naval R. O. T. G. Whatever rude shocks, the CRIMSON may have inflicted upon stony conservatism in the past by espousing worthy but novel causes, it may now be freed of all suspicion of liberalism by its present docile lisping of the syllables of staunchest reaction...