Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin selling the biggest foreign bond issue since April 1937-$25,000,000 in 4 ½%, ten-year Argentine bonds. Having already spent a rumored $50,000 to prepare the issue, the underwriters expected by noon to fix the price, parcel out the shares. At 11:45 tne telephone rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were deemed unsatisfactory. Beyond that neither underwriters nor Government had anything to add. Henry S. Morgan, second son of Banker J. P., simply said: ''It is now a dead cock...
...about his preference in Senators, four other States last week held primaries which instructed both Franklin Roosevelt and his enemies that in politics there are still a few issues besides the New Deal. Internationalist, Graft, Third Termer, Million Dollar Candidate, many another symbol or shibboleth antedating March 4, 1933, rang through the hot campaign...
...thick iron door equipped with a large bell-push and a speaking tube. The speaking tube runs through the grounds a good 50 yards to the servants' quarters. At one time the good Dr. Strauss had this speaking tube connected with a phonograph mechanism. When unwanted visitors rang the bell, a record would repeat monotonously, "Dr. Strauss is not at home. . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." A second push of the bell would stop the record and open the door. But only Strauss's intimate friends knew enough to ring twice. Nowadays, when a visitor has been...
Presently he replaced the instrument. A bell rang aboard the Q. E. D. Mother Fokker's call had been the launching signal. A wicker-jacketed bottle of Zuyder Zee water burst against the yacht's bow, workmen knocked away the keel blocks, loosed the hawsers, and the Q. E. D. started down the ways. But before more than a few feet of her hull had entered the water, she came to a dead stop. Her stern was stuck in gooey Harlem mud, there to list forlornly until the next high tide floated her up, long past midnight...
...turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them even knew the name. I rang up every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since Destinn. She ought to be one day the greatest...