Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are four white characters in Porgy; all of meagre importance. The name is pronounced, not with the scratchy g of Georgie-Porgie; but with the sharp, hard g of porgy, fish...
When the clamor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had been stilled to permit President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons to announce in hard, sharp accents that a member, found guilty of unethical conduct of his brokerage business, was expelled, the member in question, Herman W. Booth, was nowhere to be found (TIME, Oct. 3). The incident was soon drowned by the roar of hundreds of brokers resuming the hawking of securities about the 29 posts of the floor. No active trader had Mr. Booth been, with hundreds of clients to represent. Apparently his misconduct had been technical...
...Chadwick, Davison Scholar from Wadham College, Oxford, finds life in metropolitan American Cambridge in sharp contrast to life in rural Oxford. "Harvard Square," he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Is one of the strongest arguments for Prohibition...
...this table. All students must check in at home at midnight when returning from a dance. An 11.45 o'clock deadline has been set for the theatre-goers, while those who seek the Boston Arena on frosty winter nights must punch the clock at 11 o'clock sharp. The skating rink in Cambridge is honored by a 10.30 o'clock margin, but all promenaders along the Charles River must be under the wire by 10 o'clock...
Character. Baron von Maltzan, beside being one of the youngest Germans to attain ambassadorial rank, was also one of Germany's ablest diplomats. In personal appearance he was a typical German aristocrat, medium height, portly but not adipose, with an attractive genial face and sharp eyes. Of all his traits, perhaps his devotion to his family was the most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill...