Word: roundest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transformed from a lazy, ne'er-do-well, ignorant, strutting braggart to a despicably small man intent upon upholding his supposititious good name. Having run the family into crushing debt on the strength of an inheritance that was never to be realized, he curses out his daughter in the roundest of terms, and goes out to get drunk for the last time he can pay for. The son, who has become a neurotic one-armed cripple in the violent so-called service of his country, turns out to be equally base. In fact, the play almost reduces to a eulogy...
...megalomaniacs are the thumping big round numbers of U. S. business. Biggest and roundest of all are life insurance numbers. Insurance men delight in rolling off the $108,800,000,000 of insurance in force, the industry's total resources of $21,000,000,000. That sum is larger than the U. S. national debt. The companies' annual income exceeds the normal Federal budget. Insurance men love to relate that U. S. insurance companies hold for investment more than 20% of all U. S. railroad bonds, 35% of all utility bonds, 35% of all industrial bonds...