Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening to see more gaiety with Mr. Pickett, the merchant, and his lively daughter, Rose. The college buildings lighted to proclaim the occasion and Cambridge filled with visitors. A marvel it was to see the throng a happy yet well-mannered. Austin, Jr., along again, and back with him to Hollis before the curfew telled at ten. Soon into bed, tired from merry-making, to dream dreams of purlian ancestors founding a "schoale or college...
There would be no cause for such ceremony if Harvard were celebrating a three-hundredth birthday and nothing more. In such a case Billy Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...
...with an enormous working balance of $2,225,112,350. It was planned to spend enough of this during the year to bring the balance down to about $1,100,000,000. And the Treasury would borrow only $750,000,000 of new money. Therefore the public debt, which rose $5,077,650,889 last year, would this year be upped only $410,000,000-smallest increase since the beginning of Depression...
...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...
Mining stocks rose gradually. Then two months ago the boom hit. Compared to a year ago, the stocks of most of the established companies have nearly doubled in price. The prices of typical new companies have doubled, tripled and quadrupled, mostly quadrupled. All summer between 10 a. m. and noon the Manila Stock Exchange on the Escolta was crowded with "Escolta miners'5-lawyers, doctors, merchants, newspapermen, government officials, speculating gleefully, many of them starting with no more than 100 pesos ($50) capital. Five Americans and five Spaniards, said to have been worth almost nothing a year ago, were...