Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors. Boss Boyle would hang his umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon, absent himself while the graftee plunked the agreed sum into it, then return and innocently walk off with the umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year...
...make you a gentleman", his definition of a gentleman being apparently one who pays another to do what he should do himself. This is not such a bad definition. But although the tutor's method of studying for the exam may not have yielded him the maximum intellectual return, it may be doubted that purely social ambitions drove him to seek further learning. If he went to learn, the tutee had better recant, for he is betrayed. It not, the Professor giving the course must feel very flattered. THERSITES
Will you never return, Sir, to gladden...
...author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style grew clearer, if more austere, showed in every bar an uncanny knowledge of each instrument's value. Emotional people, who like music to conjure pictures for them, protested that he was incomprehensible. Stravinsky replied that he was "objective...
...Manhattan Chairman Walter Frew of Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., whose statements anyone is supposed to be able to understand, pointed out that his commercial loans now amounted to only $9,000,000, whereas that item used to run as high as $50,000,000. As for return on his money, Banker Frew was averaging only 4.28% on mortgages, 4.12% on loans and discounts, 2.96% on Government bonds, which at the year end comprised more than one-half of all the bank's earning assets...