Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lists 12,000,000 shares of 22 foreign stock issues only by subterfuge. New York state law forbids the Exchange listing them directly. 5) Uncounted U. S. money is buying foreign stocks through private bankers. Much of this foreign stock is sound. But much also is unsound, could not pass the Stock Exchange's rigid tests of reliability. 6) Thoroughly reliable foreign stocks at present have no ready trading market...
John Owen, once a cotton broker, wrote a novel, The Cotton Broker, six years ago, for which Britons laid down many a clutch of seven shillings. This year the shillings are rattling down again because Novelist Owen, a tall man who might pass for a giant, has written The Giant of Oldborne.? As a yardstick to current British taste in fiction the book will stand branding with the cliche "important...
...other aim of the Federation is beyond any doubt the more objectionable. The worth of missionary work is a much-disputed point on which it is fortunately not necessary to pass judgment here. There is no very good reason why individual Harvard students should not contribute to missionary work in spreading any kind of religion they might choose. But that blatant and benighted missionary work should be backed officially by Harvard University is deplorable. Much of the influence of Harvard University is dependent today upon a strict avoidance of religious creeds and prejudices. Its teachers and its students certainly represent...
...15th and H Streets in Washington, tall hats and striped trousers, glittering foreign orders and the brightest sparkle of cosmopolitan femininity, used to pass under a broad canopy and up red plush steps to the socially top-loftiest functions in the Capital. It was the Shoreham Hotel, a landmark. Vice Presidents lived at the Shoreham. Presidents waiting for the White House to be evacuated or renovated, stopped at the Shoreham. Diplomats dined and champagne bottles popped, even after Prohibition, at the Shoreham. . . . Last week it was announced that rough workmen would attack the Shoreham's ugly but distinguished copings...
...Pass law against crime. Thugs will all die of laughter...