Word: primest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Boston's reports are interesting to a far wider group than its 9,500 stockholders. Now that Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency are occupied with other things than Wall Street, First Boston's figures are the primest clue to banking house profits. In 1936 First Boston took in $7.348.000 from underwriting and trading operations, another $1,253,000 from interest and dividends, $229.000 from commission, service charges and miscellaneous sources. General expenses were...
...River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought 1,500 of the primest U. S. cattlemen to town...
Frantically popular is Adolf Hitler with millions of Germans but not with the aristocratic Student Korps. These correspond at German universities to the superior English youths who have been to Eton. Last week a proud array of Old Heidelberg's primest campus snobs, the Saxo-Borussian Korps, trembled before a State prosecutor who charged them with the following high misdemeanors...
Turning to the acting, we find that there are still a few of the great hams left, of whom one of the primest is Reginald Owen. His interpretation of an Englishman is indeed unique and extremely boring, even as Americans view him. Miss Wynyard and Mr. Brook don't seem to work too well together, and Mr. J. Walter Ruben, who has never produced anything very startling, certainly didn't help them along to any great extent...