Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Samuel Insull made newspaper copy for the last time. Old (78), broken in spirit, for the past year virtually an exile in Europe, living on his pension of $21,000-a-year granted by still-sound de-Insullated operating companies, he returned to Paris from a brief visit to the U. S. just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped...
...have tried to banish tip sheets from Wall Street, but investors may still buy astrological magazines in Manhattan's financial district. In American Astrology for July, a market forecast by one Colby Griffin said that the conjunction of Mercury and Mars "in square aspect to Saturn . . . (the house of speculation)" made caution in July investments advisable...
...authors' conclusion: "Maybe we were guinea pigs, but we. our parents and our teachers are still glad we took the chance...
...other school districts of the State a rebuke for whimsical and discriminatory firing, the board scolded: "If we would not dismiss a hired hand from a farm or a clerk from a store without adequate cause, we must not expect to do so in the teaching profession and still get good teaching...
Meanwhile, he was developing such an ear for southern speech that when a hitchhiker said, "I shore do thank ye," Author Daniels thought he must be a novelist in disguise. It sounded more natural when a Cherokee Indian playing a slot machine exclaimed, "Hell, it's a gyp," still more natural when a home-loving Tennessean, standing on a hilltop in his undershirt, told him proudly, "There are not many places like this one. ... I never could figure out what I went for, ex cept maybe I was young and wanted to see the world...