Word: patrician
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...years of Titanic Business it is the Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that the Allies wanted to borrow a round billion at that time; but Mr. Morgan led the British fiscal representative, Lord Reading, into his sanctum, and thoughtfully observed: "Reading, I wouldn...
...Keystone Patrician-18-passenger cabin monoplane fitted with 3 radial motors, one in nose and others on each side on bracing struts of the high fixed wing. The whole ship is fabric covered. It started from Long Island last week on a 75-day tour of the country...
...Chuckled as the Lady Astor, patrician Virginia-born British M. P., silenced a feminine opponent on the floor of the House with the fine old Southern expletive, "Oh, rats...
...Caligula's time, 12-41 A.D., the popular rendezvous of Rome's patrician bounders was Lake Nemi (Nemorensis Lacus). There among symbolic oak trees was the Temple of Diana, richest in Latium. Diana was the moon goddess, Caligula's unreachable hope. Every time she was full he would stretch out his arms to her, implore her to his embraces...
...makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet, its body 60 feet long. Its twin motors carried it last week at more than...