Word: risen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While talking to an acquaintance some weeks ago, Hilton answered the phone, listened for a moment, then crowed with delight: "I just made half a million today." He bubbled out an explanation that the stock of Hilton Hotels Corp., of which he owns 400,-ooo shares or 26%, had risen five-eights of a point, giving him the paper profit. Then he soberly corrected himself: "No, it was just about $250,000 at that...
Dandy Phil, who lives in a brick mansion in the city, devoted himself to managing the lush dining room and the gaming tables of the white colonial Beverly Club, a Costello enterprise which had risen in 1945 in wide-open suburban Jefferson Parish...
Vishinsky had risen to the challenge, and the honors for mordant criticism in U.N.'s pleasant afternoon seemed even...
Although Connolly had once said that Americans would consider Horizon "sissy" writing, it was actually U.S. subscriptions that had encouraged him to keep publishing. They had risen in two years from 500 to 1,200 while a "traveler sent around the big towns of the north [of England] was able to sell only one subscription in a year." Lamented Connolly bitterly: "The public gets the magazine it deserves. London, of course, is a particularly disheartening center from which to operate . . . that sterile, embittered, traditional literary society which has killed so many finer things than a review of literature...
...Rose thought that a Frans Hals painting was his for $20,000. But from the auctioneer's pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's the matter," called Rose, "you got a stiff arm?" Not until the price had risen another $10,000 did Parke's arm loosen up enough to bring down the hammer and sell the painting to Rose...