Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program is as follows: Serenade in D major (composed in 1774) Mozart Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Spring Song of the Robin Woman, from "Shanewis" Cadman Silhouettes (Poem by Oscar Wilde) Slonimsky New England Sketches MacDowell To a Wild Rose--From an Indian Lodge--From Uncle Remus Music Box Liadov Fantasy from the opera "Jonny spielt auf" Krenek
Married. John William Mackay, employe and son of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay; and Josephine Gwendolyn Rose, Manhattan socialite, great-granddaughter of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, famed Tammany ringmaster; in Westbury...
...this ratio has been considered extremely backward. Thus, in March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings-per-share, and the "15X" formula has become generally accepted with regard to industrials. Meanwhile, however, during the November bull market, many a stock rose far beyond the "15X" valuation, reached a price which could be justified by earnings only through the expedient of discounting possible earnings for two or three years to come...
...Then came rumors, followed by announcements, of chain store expansion, of a stock-split. Montgomery Ward skyrocketed. In the week ending Oct. 20, the stock climbed to 352, on Nov. 30 it reached its high for the year of 439⅞* Thus, during the year Montgomery Ward rose from 117 to 439⅞, an increase of 322⅞ points or about...
...brought to her she shifted her load so that it would no longer gaze downward and started forward again. But with an almost animate persistence the body moved with each stride, and gradually the round, blank silhouette again eclipsed the miniature skies through which she waded. Now her anger rose, and she splashed heavily through the water, shattering and dispersing its reflections. . . . The air about her broke into a shrill ominous whine, and a black cloud of mosquitoes enveloped her, settling like dust on head, shoulders, and legs. Involuntarily she struck out with both hands. With a heavy splash...