Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them easy. I know nuns and their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly in the right. Sometimes Catholics are too ready to take offence where not the slightest offence is intended. Perhaps Catholics get that way from having stood for more than their share of unjust abuse. I know I hit the ceiling this week when I learned that every single one of my mountaineer parishioners and even myself received a copy of a nasty, ornery anti-Catholic sheet. But when I started my green wood fire with the raggy propaganda, I felt more...
...William Boyd) wins the gang-leader's girl (Jacqueline Logan), this time in a disconnected picture released perhaps too late, perhaps still soon enough to share the harvest reaped for producers by every bomb, dick, and scarey...
...figure, earnings had also skyrocketed. Last week, when President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. announced quarterly profits of $79,266,639, nine months' profits of $240,534,613 (record for any corporation in peace time), investors hastily calculated values. In nine months, General Motors had earned $13.42 a share. Expected earnings for the full year raised the figure close to $18. Bull Raskob's formula of "15x" would set the stock's value at $270, or $49 over last week's closing price...
Nine months' earnings of U. S. Steel totaled $140,015,494, or $8.17 a share. Expected earnings for the full year would be about $11. By the Raskob formula, the stock's value should approximate $165. Actually, U. S. Steel closed on the stock exchange, last week...
...least of his considerable share of the labors was to foster his cordial relations with European and Asiatic diplomats, all of whom held him in high esteem and gladly gave him their confidence when they feared his austerer chief. "All roads lead ultimately to Magnolia" (House's summer place), said Northcliffe...