Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely unathletic. "Ring Lardner once told me that the only exercise he got was when he took the links out of one shirt and put them in another. That goes for me too." He does play croquet, however-with a fierce desire to win, as he plays parlor games and bridge. Called by Ely Culbertson "the best amateur bridge player in the U. S.," he hates playing with his dub friends, tackles the experts without getting hurt, peppers the game with such comments as "I'd like a review of the bidding, with the original inflections...
...President Edward Sanborn French of B. & M., which has $60,000,000 of debt coming due within five years, Jesse Jones outlined a recapitalization plan to put through before bankruptcy becomes unavoidable. His main proposals...
...Federal and Diamond T trucks, and most trucks made by the automobile companies, went on display downstairs from the gaiety of Chicago's regular Auto Show. Sixty blocks away at Navy Pier, National Motor Truck Show, Inc. (grumbling that Automobile Manufacturers Association had hogged half of its exhibitors) put on a technical truckman's exhibit of new monsters, eight-wheelers, trucks that do two things at once. Individualist Henry Ford played along with both; until the middle of the week he exhibited at A.M.A., and then he moved his exhibit to Navy Pier and opened again...
...when William Peter Hamilton died, Dow, Jones & Co. needed a new high priest to lead the Dow cult of stockmarket analysis. They published some of Rhea's "notebooks" in Barron's weekly. The next year Rhea put his ideas on Dow lore into a book and, after publishers refused it as a white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything...
Critics previewed the picture in London an hour after an air-raid warning had put them in the right frame of mind. What they saw was a frank propaganda picture starring Ralph Richardson* as a Flight Commander, Merle Oberon as his Red Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible...