Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elder Lindbergh, it is true, was never satisfied that any change had come in the manner and method of large banking houses. To the end he saw them only as "accursed burdens upon the plain people." In 1923, in The Economic Pinch, he wrote...
...McAndrew tabulated his belladonna-plasters-for-seasickness research as follows: Number reporting having used bella donna plasters..............6 Number reporting having escaped from sea sickness..........6 Median.................................................................................................6 Correlation............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number seen by me who said they were wearing 'em...........5 Number of such whom I saw daily unailing..................................5 Average.................................................................................................5 Correlation.............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number of physicians questioned..................................................1 Number saying the plaster should be effacious .........................1 Per cent...
...example of his advice is: treat intuitions tenderly. "The moment we feel their presence, it is as if we saw the ripple over Bethesda and we ought to know that our chance is near. Silence, both exterior and interior, should prevail; we ought to be attentive but not eager or, above all, curious. The beautiful visitor is like a butterfly, no longer the same when caught...
...City Trust's directors. The latter had wished to assuage popular suspicion concerning their bank's solvency by securing a Giannini as chief officer. Finally, Dr. Giannini, who had taken an option on part of the bank's stock, refused to exercise the option when he saw the actual condition of the bank. Perhaps Dr. Giannini erred in allowing himself to become in any way associated with a sinking ship, but he was not the man who ran the vessel on the rocks...
Then there was a general shaking of hands and a few posings with Mr. Edison standing between his cronies, Motor-Man Henry Ford and Tire-Man Harvey Samuel Firestone, his hands affectionately around their shoulders. Mr. Hoover, sauntering across the street to telephone, saw a group of little girls looking sad because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill...