Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another company gave $6,500,000 in notes, which the president of the company later bought in for $908,000, including $300,000 in notes of his own.
Another man bought back $1,500,000 of his own notes for $128,000.
"Thieving as a Moslem," is a common term of reproach among Bengal Hindus. 'Vain as a Babu,"* is the prompt response of Bengal Mohammedans. Last week Calcutta's Mohammedan quarter shook with Homeric laughter at the latest, greatest example of Babu vanity. Potent among Bengal market-gardeners is...
A Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it...
Candle-Light. The chronicles of taste in the modern theatre contain the names of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard on every page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter...