Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though you were running away from something. But if you fall in with all its demands, you feel vulgar. The only decent way out seems to be to try to make the public view of your private affairs an accurate one. You examine your real feelings and come right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into a "sylvan bower" for a pageant to include kilted bagpipers, ushers in lumbering shirts, and wines by the truckload, talked with frankness and concentration to the reporters. She discussed the Indian blood in Lena Wilson. "What...
...propose to capitalize at $100,000 common and $1,000,000 preferred stock, giving ten shares of preferred stock gratis with each share of common stock bought at par. We can sell all the stock and more right here in Cardiff, and we offer to let you in only because we think that it would be selfish to keep all of such a good thing in one city. But you best wire us what you want to do about it, for our friends are pressing us hard for all the stock...
...been living for several years, had another theory. Said she: "This is a hard-boiled age. . . . Freddie knew them all when he was at the top, but none of them knew him when he was down and out. It was his heart that killed him, all right. It was broken...
Died. The Right Rev. William Cabell Brown, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; of heart disease; in London...
...American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly of it is bound to be shown in the future. Shortsighted people run greater risk of being run over by the traffic than those who have good eyes...