Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could never have it because of a deal Pittock had made with rich U. S. Senator Henry Winslow Corbett. One story goes that Editor Scott was in the East when he first learned of the "betrayal," dashed across the continent, and wiped up the office floor with his partner's pint-sized frame. Present day Scotts and Pittocks are noticeably cool toward each other. Most embittered has been big, bald, son Leslie M. Scott, President of Portland's chamber of commerce who took part in conferences leading up to last week's changes as representative...
...bullying a naive financial agent into signing a check that will solve all their difficulties -lead to scenes of indescribable confusion. The double room which Groucho stubbornly regards as his castle becomes a shambles on which the most effective comment is entirely wordless: when Harpo undertakes to relieve his partner's hunger pangs by bringing in a live turkey he has won at a raffle, the turkey takes one look at its surroundings and flies out of the window...
Senator John Bankhead: "Shake, partner, shake...
...appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related only in being laid in Paris at the same period. Later volumes described intrigue in the Catholic Church and the formation of a mysterious secret society. They introduced a young scientist, an oil magnate involved in a love affair with his partner's wife, a munitions maker with curious vices, a broken-down novelist, a successful dramatist, students, schoolgirls, fortunetellers. Major theme linking the characters was an awareness of the danger of war, which influenced their moods, their actions and above all their ambitions for the future...
...administrative side, Harvard this fall has a new treasurer, William H. Claflin, Jr., '15, former president of the Boston Stock Exchange and former partner of Tucker, Anthony, and Company, Boston. Mr. Claflin succeeds Henry L. Shattuck, '01, of Boston who resigned last spring...