Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic instability. Of tall architecture he said: "Most of our skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections had best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator of a design should follow it through with the draughtsmen, landscapists and constructors. He was al ways enthusiastic about his projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects...
...Excerpts from a letter quoted by the New York Herald Tribune, from the president of an anonymous Southern college alumni association to a Manhattan alumnus, asking for help in ''caring for" a prospective footballer: "The man has already been picked by - and (coaches), and they say he looks mighty good. . . . We would be mighty glad if you would join us in helping us to raise the money needed, which is $600 . . . how about sending me a check...
...been purchased against constantly rising quotations. Other buyers bought other pivotal stocks. In an hour General Electric was up 21 points, Montgomery Ward up 23, Radio up 16, A. T. & T. up 22. How far the market would have gone downward on its unchecked momentum is difficult to say. But brokers and traders alike agreed that the man who bid 205 for 25,000 shares of Steel had made himself a hero of a financially historic moment...
...once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. A belated ticker recorded gains in significant stocks. New York Central was three points above Monday's close. Hysteria, it was hoped, had met its master...
...Next!" say the barbers. "What next?" ask their clients, amazed at the number of things an up-to-date barber can do to willing subjects-haircuts, shaves, shampoos, massages, tonics, vibrations, bobs, curls, waves, electric treatments...