Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the East Room one day last week walked a Chicago lawyer. In his ears was the blare of the Marine band; before him, a large U-shaped table covered with green cloth; about him, diplomats in formal attire', trim state department ushers, military and naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake...
...expect to take a dollar's worth of advertising away from our main competitors, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. And after all, there is no real competition among magazines. Rivalry, yes-but there is room for all. However, we do expect to make Liberty the greatest magazine in the history of the publishing business...
...form of the colored vases. Wisely they nodded their arty heads over the placard "Beauty has no relation to age, rarity or price." Then one art-lover gave an exclamation. The others fluttered to the side of the afflicted one, read a little note: "Every article in this room was selected at a Newark store, costs no more than...
...Hypochondriac Proust used to wear a long nightgown, sweaters, mufflers, stockings, gloves, a nightcap. He lived on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, in a cork-lined attic room. His curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author...
...from Pittsburgh to Manhattan in 1912 to become vice president of National Bank of Commerce. Here he had ample opportunity to study the workings of a Big Bank of the merging type.* Recognizing the power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed to cater...