Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere. European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...
...which the country has ridden in "Republican prosperity" the past eight years is a commonplace. The break of the past week has been a debacle. Whether the prosperity is to continue, or is to turn into a period of relative depression is hardly to be foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that appeared in September...
With a true American love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their...
...Chicago, 25 years have passed since Frederick Stock, violinist, succeeded the late Theodore Thomas as conductor...
...bust of himself and into the library's great hall, he paused near an ancient statuette of Asklepios and looked at Sargent's The Four Doctors hanging above the fireplace. And Osier again seemed to be saying to him as once before he said: "This is the stock in the soup...